timesofisrael.com

Channel 13 reports that IDF Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir said during a recent private meeting that he doesn’t currently see an operational need to strike Iran before next week’s Knesset election.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been accused by critics of pushing for a renewal of the war against Iran to influence or delay the October 27 vote — a charge he has denied.

“We do not see any indications of a need to strike Iran before the election. If we determine that a strike on Iran is necessary, we will carry it out,” Zamir is quoted as having said.

Netanyahu’s main rival, Yashar chief Gadi Eisenkot, offered a similar message publicly earlier today, telling Channel 13, “There is no direct, immediate threat from Iran that necessitates a war prior to the election.”

So one has to wonder;  is President Trump  getting ready to strike Iran on his own, without any Israeli military involvement, either before, or after the US mid-terms, assuming the mid-terms are allowed to happen as scheduled?!?

I don't know; but I do know that should the elections go ahead, and Republicans wind up taking a bath, Trump has another 60 days to order any kind of military strike against Iran he so desires. 

And as he has demonstrated, he is very fond of "re-setting the clock" on that 60 day time-limit afforded him by the War Powers Act" before he is Constitutionally required to advise Congress as to what he has done, so that Congress can either decide to declare war, or not.