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Take this with a grain of salt. I would not put it past the NYT to run interference for the Zionist entity. "Israel" already have a severe image crisis with the younger generation in the US and a lot of the western media's role is to do damage control in that regard.

If they say it was the US, a) people are more likely to forgive the actions of their own government than those of a foreign government, and b) it can be blamed on the Trump administration and turned into a partisan thing.

This could be strategic narrative management the same way throwing Ukraine under the bus for the Nordstream bombing to divert blame away from the US worked in Europe, because Europeans are more primed to sympathize with and forgive Ukraine for attacking them than the US.

Just like maintaining the US's image in Europe matters more to the European ruling class, it is more important to the US ruling class to protect the image of the Zionist entity than that of the Trump administration.

In any case, the distinction is largely illusory anyway, because the Zionist entity is an extension of the US empire and serves to advance the imperialist agenda in the region, while at the same time much of the US policy in the region serves to advance the goals and agenda of Zionism. A US attack on Iran is a Zionist attack and vice versa.