Current sectionIsrael NewsShare 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 formatSubscribeU.S. President Donald Trump, left, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Credit: Itay Cohen / Haaretz, Mandel Ngan / AFPDespite the temptation of schadenfreude over Netanyahu's personal and political debacle, there's limited satisfaction. The emerging U.S.-Iran agreement is the rare case when 'bad for Bibi' is also no good for Israel04:30 PM • June 19 2026 IDT"This is no longer the same Iran, this is no longer the same Middle East, and this is not the same Israel." When Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu uttered these words in March 2026 – during the hubristic high of the first weeks of the U.S.-Israel attack on Iran, when he still had the ear of U.S. President Donald Trump and that the overblown aims of the war, including the fall of the Iranian regime, were held in common between the two allies – he could not have envisaged how his words would be turned inside out less than 100 days later.In the NewsInside Israel's Other War: Fighting the Quiet Dismantling of DemocracyJewish National Fund Helps Settler Group Evict East Jerusalem Palestinian FamilyDefense Officials Warn Likud Minister's West Bank Emirate Plan Could BackfireNetanyahu's Last Stand: When Reality Is Low, Go LowerIran Set Up Covert Iraqi Cells to Attack Gulf Neighbors, Sources SayRemembering and rebuilding two years laterICYMIHumiliated by Trump on the Iran Front, Netanyahu May Set the Middle East Ablaze'Once-in-a-lifetime Discovery': 1,700-year-old Roman Busts Found in IsraelTrump and Netanyahu Hurtling Toward a Rupture That Could Shock U.S.-Israel TiesNetanyahu's Mouthpieces Turn on Trump, Revealing a Deeper Israeli IngratitudeFork Found in Kitchen: Israelis Have Discovered the OccupationIsrael Is Conducting a Systematic Campaign of Ethnic Cleansing in the West Bank