QatarIsraeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is expected to use his meeting with US President Donald Trump to discourage moves toward ending hostilities in the Gulf, based on a historical pattern of Israeli covert strategies over five decades. Declassified intelligence, memoirs, investigative reports, and academic research suggest that successive Israeli governments have aimed to prolong regional conflicts and maintain tensions between the US and Iran. During the Iran-Iraq War (1980–1988), Israeli strategists reportedly favored prolonging the conflict to weaken both adversaries. Israeli state broadcasts were used to influence public perception, supporting continued conflict. In 1991, during the release of Western hostages in Lebanon, Israeli officials allegedly obstructed negotiations, undermining efforts to improve US-Iranian relations.
Bias read (Progressive): The article frames Israeli actions as deliberate efforts to provoke and sustain conflict, portraying them as strategically motivated to preserve Israel's geopolitical influence. The emphasis on Israeli obstruction of peace efforts and the portrayal of US-Iranian tensions as artificially maintained (
