Any attack carried out by the Iranians for the last couple of decades – the storming of the US embassy in Baghdad, the bombing of the Saudi oil facility, the firing of Katyusha rockets into the Golan Heights, the war in Yemen and the arming of Islamic Jihad – all had Soleimani’s fingerprints. All were planned by him.

Israel wanted him dead for years. He was behind the arming of Hezbollah in Lebanon, the Islamic Jihad in Gaza and the bombing of an Israeli tour bus in Bulgaria in 2012. Plots over the years against Israeli embassies and synagogues around the world all came from him.

The fact that the attack was carried out by the US - whether with secret Israeli involvement or not – is ultimately beneficial for Israel. Israel gets to enjoy his removal from the stage but without being the first and most immediate target for Iranian retaliation.

This doesn’t mean that Donald Trump decided to kill him for Israel. Not at all. The attack against the US embassy in Baghdad this week pushed the president to take action. Yes, he restrained himself after Iran downed an American drone in June and after it attacked the oil facility in Saudi Arabia in September, but on Thursday night he had enough.

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