Billionaire philanthropist and major Republican donor Miriam Adelson published an open letter to President Donald Trump Sunday morning, accusing him of a grave mistake by signing what she called a surrender agreement with Iran. Adelson insisted on referring to Benjamin Netanyahu as 'the elected prime minister of the sovereign State of Israel', rejecting recent Trump comments questioning Netanyahu's standing, and warned that the deal 'set the hourglass for the next war'.
Miriam Adelson, the billionaire philanthropist and top Republican donor whose newspaper Israel Hayom has become a bellwether of US-Israel policy debates, published a sharply-worded open letter to President Donald Trump on Sunday morning, escalating conservative criticism of the emerging US-Iran accord.
The letter, published directly by Adelson in her newspaper, insisted on calling Netanyahu 'Prime Minister of the independent and sovereign State of Israel' — an intentional use of the full title, she wrote — in response to what she described as a controversial Trump call with Netanyahu that one of Trump's inner circle had leaked. This follows The Zioneer's report Saturday evening that Adelson had published an earlier open letter accusing Trump of 'failing' on the deal, and reflects a deepening rift between the president and a key pro-Israel donor base.
Adelson dismissed Trump's suggestion that midterm elections justify the agreement as 'a baseless excuse', and accused him of losing his moral compass and sense of leadership. She warned that a final deal with Tehran would 'cause more harm than good' and that only a reversal could restore the relationship. The letter is the latest in a series of critical assessments from pro-Israel and Gulf conservative voices reported by The Zioneer in recent weeks.
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