"Yes, Boss": The Relationship Between Benjamin Netanyahu and Donald Trump Is Absolutely One-Sided

The IDF has been required by the political echelon to reduce activity in Gaza. Donald Trump's pressure is working—at least in one arena: the Israeli arena. While he struggles to achieve results against Iran, the pressure on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is succeeding. At first, the day before yesterday, the IDF moderated its strikes, and only after 30 hours of a lull did the Air Force carry out a strike on two terrorists in the center of the Strip. But since then, it has been quiet. In the IDF, they referred media inquiries to the political echelon: "This is a political directive," they stated.

The matter here is particularly problematic. The Americans have managed in recent months to "castrate" the Israeli government regarding the management of military force application throughout the entire area. It started with the headquarters established by the US Army in Kiryat Gat, which examined and approved the IDF's fire application in Gaza. It continued with the US decision that Israel cannot operate in the Beqaa Valley and in Beirut.

Later, Israel did not receive approval from the US to defeat the terrorists imprisoned in the tunnels on the Ali Taher ridge. For those who forgot, Donald Trump shouted at Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and ordered him to return the dozens, perhaps hundreds, of fighter jets that were on their way to strike Iran at the end of the "With a Lion's Heart" war. It did not end there, but continued as the US President determines on behalf of Israel when it acts alongside the US in the war against Iran, and when he commits that Israel will not act and strike in Iran.

Now it turns out that the political-security cabinet meetings are devoid of any meaning and content. The issue of the steps for implementing the second phase of the agreement in Gaza is entirely decided in the US. Benjamin Netanyahu is, in this case, the obedient spouse who, in the political-marital relationship he manages with President Donald Trump, says: "Yes, boss."

Israel, it seems, has lost its military independence; it is subject to American interests. The future of Gaza is currently unclear. But it seems that Israel is the one that will be required to be pushed into a corner and give up most of the assets it achieved at a heavy price in the blood of IDF soldiers who fought for almost three years in Gaza. Apparently, in Gaza, there is only sand, terrorists, and Kalashnikov rifles. The rock of our existence is no longer in Rafah, in the Philadelphi Corridor, and probably not on the yellow line either. The total victory is a reality of tens of thousands of terrorists with rifles and anti-tank missiles meters from Be'eri, Nir Oz, Kfar Aza, and Nativ HaAsara.

The IDF is currently operating in the West Bank, which is trying to strengthen itself in the form of Gaza before October 7. Paratrooper and Duvdevan fighters, together with Yahalom fighters, operated in the Qabatiya area in the Menashe Brigade and destroyed ten lathes used for manufacturing explosive devices and weapons.

In the Nablus (Shechem) Kasbah, a terrorist identified with the Islamic Jihad terrorist organization who worked to promote terrorist activity was captured. In addition, the terrorist belonged to the "Lions' Den" terrorist organization that was previously thwarted by security forces. Israel is losing its security independence and becoming reliant on the American administration. This weakness is quickly learned by everyone who translates it into assessments for themselves for the day of reckoning.