Yossi Schwartz ISL (RCIT section in Israel/Occupied Palestine) 03.04.2026
If we believe Trump, he understands that he would do well to abandon and flee the campaign against Iran when he spreads nonsense about the great victory of the United States in the war. It can also be assumed that he is furious at Netanyahu, who has complicated this war with promises of a quick victory over Iran.
White House spokeswoman Caroline Levitt told the media that Operation Epic Fury was planned to last between four and six weeks, a maximum of two weeks.
Now Trump is declaring that the opening of the Strait of Hormuz is not one of the goals of the operation, and that the opening of the Strait of Hormuz is Europe’s business.
Trump is pouring out his anger on France. He said the U.S. would remember that France was “very unhelpful” when it refused to allow planes carrying military equipment to pass over its territory on their way to Israel. He also attacked the European countries that are members of NATO and announced that the United States would withdraw from NATO – a move that would leave European countries (especially Ukraine) alone in the face of Russian imperialism. In Germany, the most powerful country in Europe, Chancellor Mertz enthusiastically supported the war at the outset. He said that this was not the time to preach morality to the United States and Israel about international law. But in a short time, the rising costs, the potential damage to Germany’s economy, and the danger that the war in the Middle East would benefit Russia and harm Ukraine, caused him to change his position.
Trump is also angry with the Gulf states, especially Saudi Arabia. For not intervening in the war alongside the United States. In front of a large crowd of investors from Saudi Arabia, Trump said that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman “didn’t think he would kiss my ass.” He reacts angrily to the news that Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan joined the summit of foreign ministers of the countries trying to broker an agreement between the United States and Iran, which convened this week in Islamabad. Saudi Arabia’s participation in the summit signals that it is in practice interested in a diplomatic solution, contrary to the many reports that Bin Salman is encouraging Trump to increase attacks and not end the war before a result is achieved that will cause a historic change in the Middle East.
The level of trust of the Gulf states in the alliance with the United States, which is abandoning the war, is declining, and Israel is identified with the United States. It is likely that the Gulf states will turn to closer cooperation with Europe. France and Britain made it clear from the beginning of the war that they would travel to the Gulf states. Now Germany is also in this position.
Although the ruling classes in Europe understand very well that it is dangerous to fall out with Trump now, they are not willing to accept any more humiliation and dictates from the United States.
If the European Union and Britain take upon themselves the opening of the Strait of Hormuz, and if they succeed in building an interregional alliance with the Gulf states independent of the United States, such an alliance would also push Israel to the margins. In stark contrast to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s pretensions to turn Israel into a regional power and his promises to get out of the war with regional alliances, Israel is likely to find itself in even deeper political isolation than the day after the war in Gaza, and against the masses around the world. Israel’s military adventure in Iran, to which Netanyahu dragged Trump, may be the beginning of its own grave’s digging.
Trump and Netanyahu do not recognize the laws of history, but that does not mean that history does not recognize those laws. One of the most important laws in nature and history is the law of negation. Something that exists is denied, to the new phenomenon of later it is negated and there is a return to the initial state but at a higher level. In 1948, a Palestinian state was to be established in the Land of Israel with a Jewish minority with civil rights. But Zionism rejected this solution in the Nakba and completed the negation in the 1967 war. Now that Israel is apartheid from the sea to the river, the negation of Zionist apartheid will inevitably come, and a Palestinian workers’ state with the support of the peasants will be established from the sea to the river, when the Jews who do not flee from it will receive civil rights. That country will be part of a socialist federation of the Middle East.