After President Trump’s encouragement for Tehranis to evacuate their city, Israelis are speculating on possible involvement by the United States in their war with Iran. A.R. Hoffman writes in The New York Sun:
June 16 was, among other things, “Bloomsday,” celebrated annually. It marks the day in 1904 that the events of Irish novelist James Joyce’s “Ulysses” transpire. That literary landmark’s protagonist is Leopold Bloom, an Irish Jew who wanders Dublin imagining an Israel of “Silver-powdered olive trees. Quiet long days: pruning, ripening. Oranges in tissue paper packed in crates. Citrons too. Crates lined up on the quayside at Jaffa.”
This Bloomsday, with Israel at war, all of Tel Aviv is abuzz with President Trump’s advice for Tehranis to evacuate their city “immediately” — and what it could portend for the course of a war now in its fifth day. Mr. Trump’s decision to leave the G-7 conference early and fly to the District of Columbia has fueled speculation that he could be weighing greater American involvement in the battle against the Islamic Republic.
The president declared on Truth Social on Monday that “Simply stated … IRAN CAN NOT HAVE A NUCLEAR WEAPON.” He added that his change of plans “has nothing to do with a Cease Fire” and is “much bigger than that.” Israel’s Channel 14, widely seen to be sympathetic to Prime Minister Netanyahu, reported on Monday that America had decided to join the fight, but a White House deputy communications director, Alex Pfeiffer, insists that “American forces are maintaining their defensive posture and that has not changed. We will defend American interests.”
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