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29. Alex Brandon/AP Trump is no puppet The Tribune Editorial Board rightly points out the risks facing the United States and the world surrounding President Donald Trump’s decision to strike Iran (“We won’t miss the Supreme Leader of Iran. But does Donald Trump have a real plan?” March 2). Opening the path to a different Iran and stability in the Middle East is something everyone on the planet should be wishing for, but this operation has enormous risks.

Well said. Unfortunately, the editorial board can’t help itself. It writes that leaders who shoot from the hip and operate on hunches, as Trump is often seen doing, “are always vulnerable to outside manipulation,” then the board states that “in the era of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Israeli and U.S. interests are not always the same.”

The clear implication is that Israel is pulling the strings and Trump is being manipulated. That sort of characterization (often found in crazed rants on social media) completely misses what is going on here. Israel surely wants regime change in Iran. Under the supreme leader, Iran would have wiped Israel off the map if it had the ability to do so. So yes, Israel fully supported not just limiting Iran’s ability to develop a nuclear weapon but also, if possible, creating regime change. Jews and Persians have a long, vibrant and positive history together since biblical times, and only since 1979, the Iranian Revolution, has this relationship soured.

The brutal Iranian regime posed a threat to Israel’s existence, and Israel is merely acting as any nation-state would — to protect itself and its citizens. But to think that Donald Trump is a mere puppet of Israel and its supporters misses the bigger picture involving the United States and the region. Iran provides weapons to Russia and supports its war machine in Ukraine. It also provides oil to China in violation of the sanctions we imposed. The relationships Russia and China have with Iran have allowed them to gain a stronger geopolitical foothold in the Middle East, which challenges American influence in the region.

You may not think these issues are worth starting a war over, but there are plenty of smart people in Washington who do. So yes, Israel is happy to see the Iranian leadership taken down in order to better protect itself, but U.S. interests in the region are broader. To suggest Trump is merely doing Netanyahu’s bidding really misses the mark.

the nomination, a crowded race that is among the most closely watched House primaries in the country. It’s a contest that encap- sulates how much the Demo- cratic Party has transformed in theTrumpera,thegrowinginflu- enceofoutsidemoneyinsafe-blue districtsandthegenerationalshift in a seat long anchored by Chica- go’s liberal Jewish political tradi- tion. What might once have been a largely local affair has become a fight about the political party’s direction as much as constit- uent issues in the district that represents parts of Chicago’s North Side as well as many north andnorthwestsuburbs.

TheMarch17primaryisallbut certaintodeterminethedistrict’s next member of Congress. The questionforvotersisnotwhether tosendaDemocrattoWashington, D.C.,butwhatkind. ‘Quarter-century opportunity’ to replace Schakowsky 9th Congressional District candidates Evanston Mayor Daniel Biss, from left, state Sen. Laura Fine and political commentator Kat Abughazaleh participate in a debate moderated by Paris Schutz, right, at WFLD-Ch. 32 in Chicago on Feb. 25. CHRIS SWEDA/CHICAGO TRIBUNE Big money, national issues collide in closely watched race See RACE on Page A2 178thyearNo.55 © ChicagoTribune By Jon Gambrell, Melanie Lidman and Samy Magdy ASSOCIATED PRESS DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Israel and the United States pounded Iran on Monday in a campaign that President Donald Trump said would likely take severalweeks.Tehrananditsallies hit back against Israel, Gulf states and targets crucial to the world’s energyproduction.

The intensity of the attacks, the killing of Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and the lack of any apparent exit plan set the stage for a prolonged conflict with far-reaching consequences. Havens in the Mideast like Dubai have seen incoming fire; hundreds of thousands of airline passen- gers are stranded around the globe; oil prices shot up; and U.S. allies pledged to help stop Iranian missilesanddrones. Withnosignoftheconflictabat- inganytimesoon,Trumpsaidoper- ations are likely to last four to five weeksbutthathewasprepared“to gofarlongerthanthat.”

In a sign of concern over the potentialforspiralingviolence,the StateDepartmentonMondayurged U.S. citizens to leave more than a dozen Middle Eastern countries duetosafetyrisks. “Thehardesthitsareyettocome fromtheU.S.military,”Secretaryof State Marco Rubio told reporters. “Thenextphasewillbeevenmore punishing on Iran than it is right now.” Gen. Dan Caine, the chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said Monday that the U.S. military was bolster- ing its forces in the Middle East, sending more troops and fighter jets to the region as America’s war expands.

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