Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu faced a raucous backlash from opponents and allies on Monday after US President Donald Trump announced a deal with Iran that many in Israel view as a capitulation.
Trump hailed the agreement to extend the ceasefire and reopen the Strait of Hormuz — to be signed on Friday in Switzerland after weeks of fractious negotiations and intermittent outbreaks of fighting — as a “Great Deal” that would “bring Peace and Security to the whole Region”.
But in Israel the news was met with a mix of anger and frustration across the political spectrum that the US president had again forced the country into a humiliating truce before it had achieved any of its war goals.