Netanyahu to Offer Trump Iran Strike Options at Dec 29 Mar-a-Lago Summit

Pre-emptive strike dossiers are hardly new: Menachem Begin waved similar papers before Ronald Reagan prior to Israel’s 1981 Osirak raid, and Ehud Olmert did so before the 2007 Syrian reactor hit. Each time, Jerusalem argued that delay would turn an engineering project into an untouchable strategic threat. Today’s pitch follows that playbook but shifts the centre of gravity from fissile material to delivery vehicles—signalling that in the hypersonic/saturation era, payload may matter less than volume. Over the past three decades Israel and Iran have been locked in a technological tit-for-tat that has gradually normalised preventive war and blurred sovereignty norms in the Middle East. Whether Trump endorses a new strike or not, the very public courting of U.S. firepower reinforces a trend toward coalition pre-emption and drone-missile escalation that could define regional security architecture for decades. On a 100-year horizon, repeated attacks on production capacity rather than finished weapons risk cementing a permanent cycle of reconstruction and reprisal, much like the Anglo-German naval race before 1914—only this time with cheaper, faster-built rockets instead of dreadnoughts. If that cycle becomes entrenched, today’s meeting notes may be remembered less for their immediate targets than for advancing an arms-race rhythm that future generations inherit.