Only Trump can finish what Israel started, former Israeli defence minister says

Yoav Gallant, Israel's former minister of defence, says this week is the one where US president Donald Trump has to make a decision to intervene in Israel's current war on Iran. 

"Should he, or should he not, use American air power to finish the job Israel has very nearly completed, ensuring that Iran never possesses nuclear weapons?" Gallant and British historian Niall Ferguson wrote in a piece in The Free Press.

The two indicated that the support of allies, especially the US, has been essential for Israel.

"Now, with a single exertion of its unmatched military strength, the United States can shorten the war, prevent wider escalation, and end the principal threat to Middle Eastern stability," they added.

Gallant and Ferguson stress that a US intervention would "send a signal to those other authoritarian powers who have been Iran’s enablers that American deterrence is back."

Gallant has an outstanding International Criminal Court warrant against him for crimes against humanity and war crimes in Gaza.