03/11/2026
President Trump’s suggestions that the war with Iran might soon be over are bringing a new problem to the fore: Israel and the U.S. have different ideas on when to end the conflict and under what conditions.
Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu have spoken nearly every day since the war began, sometimes more than once a day. Netanyahu has also held conversations with Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Jared Kushner, the president’s son-in-law and envoy for Iran.
All those talks center on the current state of the war and how to end it, the U.S. officials said.
Despite their close coordination, differences in the Israeli and American approaches are emerging, with Israel continuing to track and kill top Iranian officials while broadening its range of targets to include the country’s oil industry as it tries to force a change in leadership.
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