Daily Briefing June 30: Why Netanyahu won’t publicly take on Trump over Iran

Welcome to The Times of Israel’s Daily Briefing, your 20-minute audio update on what’s happening in Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish world.

News editor Ben Sales joins host Jessica Steinberg for today’s episode.

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As the US-Iran deal progresses, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu knows he can’t mount the same kind of campaign he did 11 years ago against the 2015 Iran deal spearheaded by then-US president Barack Obama, Sales says, noting that the Israeli leader can only operate behind the scenes this time around.

Sales reviews three Democratic candidates who won New York City congressional primaries last week, two with virulently anti-Israel politics, and posits that while support for Israel was once a unifying factor in American politics, now opposition to Israel plays  that part.

As the 50th anniversary of the July 4, 1976, raid on Entebbe approaches, Sales reports on the release of a huge trove of archival material that relates salient details about the operation, including that it was not a foregone conclusion in the hours before it took place.

Check out The Times of Israel’s ongoing liveblog for more updates.

For further reading:

Netanyahu can’t run the playbook he used to fight the 2015 Iran deal — and Trump knows it

American pro-Israel activists may have just had their worst week ever

‘Zero hour is coming’: How Israel went from negotiating over hostages to the daring raid at Entebbe

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