Israel Hayom, the daily owned by major Trump donor Miriam Adelson, published a scathing open letter Monday morning. Senior journalist Danny Zaken wrote the piece, accusing President Trump of betraying Israel by finalizing the Iran deal and of spreading lies about Netanyahu. Zaken warns Trump may be remembered as the president who humiliated America.
Israel Hayom, the flagship daily owned by billionaire Republican donor Miriam Adelson, published a front-page-style open letter to President Donald Trump on Monday morning, using unusually harsh language to condemn the administration's handling of the Iran nuclear deal and the president's recent attacks on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
The piece, by veteran journalist Danny Zaken, accuses Trump of 'betraying us, the Israelis' and warns that the president may 'forever be remembered as the president who brought about America's humiliation.' Zaken rejects Trump's assertion that Netanyahu should be grateful for the deal, and pushes back on claims by Trump and his aides that the prime minister owes his political survival to Trump. 'Not only did you fail to minimize the gravity of that difficult conversation, you added to it in conversations with journalists, spreading lies about how 'I saved his ass from prison',' Zaken writes.
The editorial echoes criticism from other conservative voices in Israel and Gulf states in recent days. On Sunday, Miriam Adelson herself published an open letter accusing Trump of a 'grave mistake' on Iran. A senior UAE commentator and New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman also accused Trump of betraying regional allies. The escalating rift between the US administration — traditionally seen as Israel's most reliable ally under Trump — and both Israeli officials and mainstream Israeli conservatives marks an extraordinary moment in US-Israel relations.
Zaken concludes: 'A final word from an Israeli. We feel betrayed, no less, because your heart was — so it seemed — in the right place, despite all your flaws. You acted against it. You lost your patience and your moral and leadership compass. Only if you step back and avoid reaching a final agreement with Iran will there perhaps be a correction.'
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