Donald Trump declared that, “for the first time in a thousand years, the world will look at this region not as a place of turmoil and strife, and war and death, but as a land of opportunity and hope.”

Trump's change of tone is remarkable for coming less than a week after the US president -- who has openly talked about wanting to win the Nobel Peace Prize -- called on Israel to avoid strikes.

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Benyamin Netanyahu made his point clear yesterday on ABC news: killing Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran's Supreme Leader, "would not provoke an escalation. It would end the conflict" with Iran. Netanyahu reveals his end goal: the fall of the Tehran regime.

Israel did not ask permission in 1981 before destroying Saddam Hussein’s Osirak reactor, or in 2007 before destroying Iran’s reactor that was under construction in the Syrian desert. Trump is grievously mistaken if he thinks Netanyahu will “chicken out,” standing idly by as Iran becomes a nuclear power. Cometh the hour, cometh the man.

The comments fueled questions over whether Washington will join Israel's attacks after insisting it had no hand in the campaign.

The US president said he would end wars and now a vocal part of his support is urging him to stay out of this conflict.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told Fox that their intelligence showed Iran planned to give nuclear weapons to the Houthis and other proxies