Israelis reacted with shock and dismay on Monday to the US-Iran deal announced by President Trump on Sunday, with many expressing the sentiment that “Israel has been left alone and that “Trump has abandoned Israel.”
Finance Minister Betzalel Smotrich stated, “The agreement with Iran is bad for Israel and for the entire free world. Period.”
Smotrich also slammed the opposition figures who took advantage of the situation to cast blame on Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, saying: “None of those who see themselves as candidates for prime minister could withstand even ten percent of the pressure currently being applied to the Israeli government, and especially to its leader.”
Senior Arab affairs i24NEWS commentator Tzvi Yechezkeli slammed the deal, saying that it is similar to the 2015 nuclear deal signed by President Obama. “Trump rushed into an agreement, abandoned Israel, his partner in the war, and caused us enormous damage,” he said. “The Iranians are demanding that we withdraw from Lebanon; there’s no discussion about its missile program, and they continue talking about destroying Israel. That is their picture of victory.”
He asserted that even if the White House denies some of the reported details, the essence of the agreement resembles the nuclear deal signed with Iran in 2015. “It’s exactly the same agreement,” he said. “They told Iran: take your time, we’ll look the other way and go to sleep. Trump left us alone.”
“This is very alarming,” Yechezkeli said. “Something is happening that will have a very significant impact on Israel, perhaps even more dangerous than the situation before the previous war.”
Yechezkeli pointed to reports from Pakistani mediators describing substantial gains for Iran, including sanctions relief, access to frozen assets, a ceasefire on multiple fronts, demands for an Israeli withdrawal from Lebanon, and the creation of a massive reconstruction and investment fund.
He said that, according to the Iranian version of the agreement, Iran’s enriched uranium stockpile and nuclear facilities will remain in place while Tehran gains a central role in overseeing traffic through the Strait of Hormuz.
“From their perspective, this is justice,” he said. “You came to fight us, so now you will pay, compensate us, and apologize. That’s how Iran views this agreement.”
“Our leadership is being tested now,” he said. “We cannot accept this, not in Lebanon and certainly not in Iran. If Trump ties our hands, we have a serious problem.”
Yehezkeli concluded by referring to the beginning of the Hebrew month of Tammuz. “In 17 days we will begin the Three Weeks. The Strait of Hormuz has been opened and the world feels that everything is fine, but other great straits are approaching us,” he said. “We will overcome them as well, if we face the dangers without Trump—who does not understand the Middle East—tying our hands.”
“Trump’s lack of understanding has placed us in a serious strategic problem,” Yehezkeli concluded. “The Iranians emerged from this war with an agreement that gives them money, power, and a sense of justice, and in return they gave words.”
Channel 14 journalist Yinon Magal did not mince words about the deal, saying: “Trump came out a loser.”
Magal claimed that Trump succumbed to pressure from U.S. envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, and Vice President J.D. Vance, whom he accused of advancing Qatari interests at Israel’s expense.
In his post, Magal also used harsh and derogatory language toward Witkoff and Kushner, accusing them of having their influence “bought” by Qatar and of having “sold out their brothers in Israel.”
Magal also criticized the Gulf states, arguing that they feared a continuation of the war and agreed to funnel billions of dollars to Iran in order to restore stability to the region.
“So we are left alone,” he wrote. “And we will win alone—כי נצח ישראל לא ישקר.”
(YWN Israel Desk—Jerusalem)
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לב מלכים ביד ה’
This what you get when you persecute Torah and Chareidim!
Wait. Isn’t this bad deal affecting the chareidim too?
To David the Kanoi. If we are playing that game. This is what you get when you shirk your responsibility to participate in protecting your fellow Jews as has been done throughout the Torah and Nach, and codified by the Rambam, and disparage those who do.
TheYeshivaWorld editors… are you apikoros?
Israel has not been abandoned!!! HaKodosh Boruch Hu is with us!!!!!!!!!
Change your heading of this article please. or start working for CNN
אין לנו על מי להישען אלא על אבינו שבשמים
Most Israelis are very opposed to reliance on Ha-Shem. That is why the persecution of the Hareidim is popular even among many of the Religious Zionists. — Trump has little choice since there is very little American support for a muscular policy against Iran, and while a global shortage of petroleum and natural gas helps American producers (better prices, high share of global markets), it is very bad news for American consumers and may serious undermine Trump’s support in the upcoming mid-term elections.
How foolish Netanyahu was to trust a felonous liar.
@Dip:
You have it totally backwards. The Torah learners are the actual and real protection. The more damage the idolaters inflict on them, the more they hurt themselves. “Protecting your fellow Jew” is also obviously not a requirement when it involves being converted to another religion and losing your Judaism, as it the requirement in that shmad army intentionally designed to destroy the Judaism of its inductees.
@Sandy613:The greatest gedolim over the past century have noted that the Zionist paradise will not last. Hashem will watch over His children and neither needs nor wants that “State” as part of His plan. In His infinite mercy, He still hasn’t gotten rid of that idol. But, as Rav Elchonon Wasserman stated in Kovetz maamarim, “I do not come to curse. But it is an open passuk in the Torah that Hashem will expel evildoers from His land”.
I am disappointed, too.
However, one’s options are limited when he has no more ammunition.
When you put all your faith in a human being you get disappointed
why are people so ungrateful to the leaders and militaries that achieved so much? I understand those whose goals are to remove the leaders – whether because they are the actual enemy or political rivals, but for normal people this makes no sense.
Iranian nuclear weapons are underground – so much after 2025 that there was nothing else nuclear to bomb in 2026. This time, half of missiles, missile production facilities, the head of the snake and lots of top commanders were eliminated. remaining leaders argue between each other. what else can be done from the air? ok to be disappointed that regime did not fall and that it is possible to dig some weapons up or build new ones – but now everyone sees what the enemy’s defense is – drones and closing the gulf. Both can be countered with enough preparation. You can build more oil production in other places and pipelines out of the gulf in 2-5 years. So, it will be easier to do next time if regime does not cooperate.
When I noticed how Jared started bending rules on basic Shabbos observance, I knew this was not an authentic Jew. How could you then trust him on Israel?
The question for those in Israel who are against this agreement is whether they believe no agreement at all is better. This war showed that there is no military way of preventing Iran from building a bomb or forcing them to agree to whatever is demanded of them. They have a new facility called Pickax Mountain that is beyond the range of any bomb. So would they prefer that Iran just go about building a bomb now to be ready in a few years or for Iran to agree not to build one for 15 years in exchange for money. Instead they act as if Trump had the leverage to force them to agree to anything he wanted and simply decided to give Iran gift after gift because he suddenly doesn’t care about Israel despite being the only president who joined with Israel to go to war with Iran.
Unfortunately present day Israel is led by wicked heretics human beings that their soul goal is to eradicate religion and the Torah. They only want to rely on כוחי ואומץ ידי . Why is everyone forgetting that we once had EY and we were on top of the world however if you study Jewish history and we did not behave properly we got kicked out of EY so too will happen again if our behavior towards the torah learners and the true faithful religious citizens are being harassed and threatened with prison punishments this is the result. Unfortunately we are pretty close to being kicked out again.