Pundit: US concerned Israel will strike Iran without prior coordination

• Author: Israel National News
• Published date: 06 March 2023
• Publication title: Israel National News (Israel)

In a column he published on Sunday, Ben-Yishai wrote that the concerns brought the US to send to Israel, at short notice, the two most senior figures in the Pentagon - the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the Secretary of Defense - for clarification and coordination talks with senior officials of the Israeli defense establishment and with the senior political figures in Jerusalem

US Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Mark Milley, landed in Israel on Friday and met with IDF Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi and with Defense Minister Yoav Gallant. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin is scheduled to arrive in Israel on Thursday of this week.

The reason for the visits, according to a senior member of Israel's defense establishment who was quoted in Ben-Yishai's column, is that the White House and the Pentagon fear that the current Israeli government will surprise the United States by striking Iran and dragging Washington...