Nick Schifrin:
It was the final Iranian strike before the cease-fire, but Israel says it kept firing interceptors, including this one that fell in Northern Israel, and accused Iran of two cease-fire violations.
That’s when Israeli chief of the general staff, Eyal Zamir, warned: “In light of the severe violation of the cease-fire carried out by the Iranian regime, we will respond with force.”
Quickly, President Trump called Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and made a demand in private and online: “Israel, do not drop those bombs. If you do, it is a major violation. Bring your pilots home now.”
Forty minutes later, he wrote: “Israel is not going to attack Iran. All planes will turn around and head home.”
Israel restricted its bomb targets to an Iranian radar installation. That wasn’t good enough for President Trump, whose own bomb started with F.
Donald Trump, President of the United States: I’m not happy with Israel. When I say, OK, now you have 12 hours, you don’t go out in the first hour and just drop everything you have on them. So I’m not happy with them. I’m not happy with Iran either.
But I’m really unhappy if Israel is going out this morning because of one rocket that didn’t land, that was shot, perhaps by mistake, that didn’t land. I’m not happy about that.
We have — we basically have two countries that have been fighting so long and so hard that they don’t know what the (expletive deleted) they’re doing. Do you understand that?
