What does Netanyahu want from Trump … negotiations or military strike?

According to “Axius”, Netanyahu will try to persuade Trump to understand about a military strike against Iranian nuclear establishments, if it is not possible to reach a new agreement.

Amid this escalation, the Israeli Affairs editor in “Sky News Arabia”, Nidal Kanaaana, said that Netanyahu “is going to make the military option more realistic and more likely”, stressing that the Israeli Prime Minister “knows that the option is on the table, but he wants to raise his seriousness to the maximum.”

According to Kanana, Netanyahu seems to be not asked to carry out a direct blow, but his usual style will follow: converting negotiations into a tool that leads to war.

“Netanyahu will use the same method that he created in Gaza: to transform negotiations into a dead end that leads to war,” Kannah added, noting that Netanyahu will suggest conditions fully realize that Iran will reject it.

Among these conditions, according to Kanana, the cancellation of the time ceiling of the nuclear agreement, and the destruction of the entire Iranian nuclear project instead of freezing or restricting it, as did the 2015 agreement. He continued: “Netanyahu does not want to return to the Iranian nuclear project a few steps back, but rather wants to return it to the zero point.”

It is also expected that Netanyahu is expected to impose strict restrictions on what he calls “Iran’s arms” in the region, in reference to Iranian influence in countries such as Lebanon, Syria and Yemen, a issue related to Israel’s rejection of any Iranian economic recovery that can be used to enhance this influence.

Kenaana believes that Netanyahu’s ultimate goal is to force Iran to accept an agreement on Israeli conditions, or to confront a real threat to wage war.

He said, “Iran is strong in negotiations, so Netanyahu wants to take it off the element of time and impose a decisive period: only two months, either an agreement on its terms or war.” He added that Netanyahu is counting on Trump’s unexpected “personality” to create additional psychological pressure on Tehran.

Kennah pointed out that Israel, historically, was describing the Iranian negotiator as “more difficult than a merchant in Bazar”, referring to Tehran’s ingenuity in negotiation and prevarication, which makes imposing a narrow time framework part of the Israeli strategy to inform Iran’s most important tools in negotiation.

But in the background of these moves, internal political connotations are also waving. Kamanah notes that Netanyahu seeks to export the crisis towards Iran, to divert attention from Gaza, and the internal pressures facing his government.

Kamanah asserts that “Netanyahu wants to occupy Trump and the world in the issue of Iran, away from Gaza.”

He believes that this strategy represents an extension of an approach that Netanyahu has long used to strengthen his position in the Israeli, by focusing on external “existential threats”.