A ceasefire between Israel and Iran is holding for now but Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warns that his country “will strike again” if Iran “thinks of rebuilding” its nuclear program. President Trump was furious that Israel violated the terms of the ceasefire he put in place on Monday, saying “We basically have two countries that have been fighting so long and so hard that they don’t know what the f*** they’re doing.” But why would he trust Israel to honor a ceasefire to begin with? Israel has violated over 3,000 cease-fire terms since October 7—across Gaza and Lebanon. In Lebanon alone, Israel violated the ceasefire over 2,700 times after President Biden expressly forbid Netanyahu not to invade southern Lebanon. Wouldn’t it be foolish to keep trusting Israel to honor its ceasefires? At what point does this stop being naivety—and start looking like complicity? The Trump administration is now defending the destruction of the nuclear sites in Iran that were bombed on Saturday. The Washington Post reports that the nuclear sites were “not obliterated” but instead “set back by months.” So what’s the truth? Was this a strategic victory—or a flimsy excuse for Israel to bomb again? The post The Ceasefire Illusion appeared first on Redacted.