The Bibi is back. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrived in Washington on Monday ahead of a crucial White House meeting with President Trump. Both men will also attend the funeral of Senator Lindsey Graham, who was a great friend and supporter of Israel.
It’s the eighth meeting between the two leaders since President Trump returned to office in January 2025, and the stakes could not be higher. After nearly two weeks of massive strikes against Iran, the US has paused military operations yet again in an attempt to negotiate with Iran’s regime. The President told Axios on Monday, “We are in very deep talks with Iran. If they don’t work out, we will go back to very strong military action… Either it goes fast or not at all.”
Folks, we have been here many times with Iran’s regime since the ceasefire went into effect back in April, and each time the regime has broken agreements and attacked shipping in the Strait of Hormuz. This is who they are, and it’s what they do.
You’re never going to get any sort of credible, long-lasting deal with jihadist fanatics who want to usher in the Islamic version of the end times. I believe both Trump and Bibi realize this, and there will no doubt be some serious Iran strategy discussed during Tuesday’s meeting, along with discussion on the way forward in Gaza, Lebanon, and a potential Abraham Accords agreement between Israel and Saudi Arabia.
Prime Minister Netanyahu on Sunday: “What will it take [to end this war]? It will take for Iran to understand, either for this regime to fall or for Iran to realize that the cost of wreaking economic chaos on the world, murdering thousands of its own citizens, and shooting at everyone—literally at everyone, at Saudi Arabia, at Bahrain, at Qatar, at Kuwait, at the UAE, at Israel, at Jordan, every single one. This is what this regime is doing when they don’t have nuclear weapons. Imagine what they would do if they had nuclear weapons. I think when this regime is either toppled or it’s sufficiently weakened that it knows it has to end its nuclear program and has to change its course. That’s really what President Trump is trying to achieve. And I fully back his efforts to do so. If he can do so without returning to intense military fighting, that’s fine. Why not? But one way or the other, they have to end their nuclear program. And with a deal or without a deal, that has to come to an end.”
And that, as they say, is the bottom line.
Yet there are reports that Iran has moved advanced centrifuges to a highly fortified underground nuclear site called Pickaxe Mountain. There are no signs that the regime is suddenly “seeing the light.”
Iran’s Supreme Leader, Mojtaba Khamenei—who has not been seen in public since February—posted this weekend that “no path remains other than jihad and resistance.”
Iran is also vowing revenge against Ukraine after the Ukrainians reportedly struck an Iranian ship over the weekend in the Caspian Sea that was delivering weapons to, you guessed it, Russia.
I pray that the United States and Israel are on the road to finishing the job.
