At 1:08 a.m. eastern daylight time, President Donald Trump proclaimed on social media that a cease-fire between Iran and Israel was “NOW IN EFFECT,” potentially ending an intense 12 days of violence and allowing all sides to step back from a wider, more destructive regional war. “PLEASE DO NOT VIOLATE IT!” Trump wrote.By 6:50 a.m., the government of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had dispatched aircraft on a mission to strike back after what Israeli officials said was an Iranian violation of the emerging truce. Trump returned to Truth Social. “ISRAEL. DO NOT DROP THOSE BOMBS,” the president wrote. “BRING YOUR PILOTS HOME, NOW!”Those early-morning hours of whiplash in the most destructive phase of Iran and Israel’s decades-long conflict underscored the uniquely Trumpian way that the president has managed the hostilities: with a running social-media commentary that has been at times bellicose, at times conciliatory, and always bountiful with his… ...[TheTopNews] Read More.
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