Lone goals: will US-Israel war aims diverge?

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  But first...

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  Last night, Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gave his first press conference

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  since the start of the war nearly two weeks ago.

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  Iran is no longer the same Iran, he said,

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  adding that Israel would crash the regime,

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  and that of Hezbollah, Iran's proxy in Lebanon.

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  As he spoke, Israel was yet again pounding Tehran

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  and widening its operations in Lebanon to a larger area in the country's south.

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  Meanwhile, America was dealing with different problems.

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  A refueling plane crashed in Iraq,

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  though apparently that was due neither to hostile nor friendly fire,

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