Current sectionIsrael NewsIsrael SecurityAfter another exchange of fire with Iran, Netanyahu's weakness is on full display. After all, Trump is calling the shotsShare to FacebookShare to XArticle printing is available to subscribers onlyPrint in a simple, ad-free formatSubscribeComments: Zen reading is available to subscribers onlyAd-free and in a comfortable reading formatSubscribeA demonstrator dressed as U.S. President Donald Trump holding a puppet of Benjamin Netanyahu at a protest in Tel Aviv on Saturday. Credit: Tomer Appelbaum05:07 PM • June 08 2026 IDTPrime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has led Israel into a strategic dead-end. Having reduced Israel to a condition of utter dependence on the United States, he has now been forced - again - to accept U.S. President Donald Trump's dictates on Israel's military operations in Iran and Lebanon. In the NewsNetanyahu May Find His Way Back From Trump's Humiliation, but Back to What?Iran and Israel Exchange Fire, and 'Trump Is Fed Up'Despite Iranian Missiles, Israelis Continue to Fly Out of Ben-Gurion AirportTwo Government Officials Questioned Over Threats Against Party Man's DismissalIsrael Attacks Lebanon 3,500 Times Since April Cease-fire, Lebanese PM SaysRemembering and rebuilding two years laterICYMI'We Were Ordered to Kill': The 1967 Nakba That Israelis Don't Know About'Israel Is Unstoppable, We Need Other Countries to Get Us Out of This''Fucking Crazy': Trump Lashes Out at Netanyahu Over Lebanon, Report SaysThe Paradigm That Led to Oct. 7 Didn't Collapse, It Was Fiction From the StartGermany Is Paying a Price for Its Sweeping Support for IsraelHow the U.S. Air Force Is Turning Israel's Ben-Gurion Airport Into Its Own Base