Donald Trump, Benjamin Netanyahu. The US president’s once close relationship with the Israeli prime minister seems to collapse…
Donald Trump ignores Benjamin Netanyahu, does not include Israel on his Middle East tour, talks directly with Hamas and Iranians and presses for a ceasefire in Gaza, without asking for Jerusalem’s consent.
The question is one: How in a few months the Israeli prime minister passed through the triumphant reception to the White House in the silent alienation?
The answer: Suddenly Trump no longer buys what Netanyahu sells, According to the New York Times.
To May 12the Feast Alexanderan American Israeli soldier and a citizen with double nationality, He was released by Hamas in Gaza. There had been immediate negotiations between the US and Hamas, in a diplomatic thriller, Without Israel’s participation.
The American negotiator Adam Bellerwho had held direct talks with Hamas in March, accompanied Alexander’s mother on the flight from America to Israel. US Special Envoy, Steve Whitkovshe gave her the phone to talk to her son at the time of liberation. International media headlines focused on Donald Trump’s telephone conversation with Edan Alexander, sending a clear message: It was Trump, not Netanyahu, who liberated the Israeli soldier from Gaza.
Today, Benjamin Netanyahu seems to be in the face of an unpleasant surprise, as the New York Times reports. Donald Trump’s government is not what the Israeli prime minister was waiting for.
In almost every strategic and geopolitical issue of Israel, from the pursuit of a new agreement with Iran to the ceasefire with the Houthi, from the acceptance of the new regime in Syria to the immediate negotiation with Hamas to release hostages, Donald Trump not only bypasses Israel, but follows a completely different course From what Netanyahu would choose. The US government has repeatedly marginalized Israel, thereby revealing its Israeli leader’s failure and failures of the Israeli leader, whose The only success is to maintain power through constant war.
When the prime minister met with Trump at the Oval Office in February, after a ceasefire imposed on him, he received the “gift” of the “Gaza Riviera” plan by Trump, who legitimizes the idea of mass displacement of Palestinians from Gaza.
Since then, the Trump government has offered further support and weapons in Israel, including 2,000 -pound bombs previously restricted by Joe Biden, and allegedly considering the proposal to transfer one million Palestinians to Libya.
However, Trump talks about ‘Ending this very violent war’, At a time when Netanyahu is publicly committed to ‘Check all the gauze’ and succeed ‘Complete victory. “
Netanyahu is increasingly isolated. He can no longer accuse the Biden government of failing to defeat Hamas, nor the Minister of Defense, the Chief of the General Staff, or the members of the negotiating team, all of whom he has recently replaced, as well as the leader of Hamas Mohammad Sinuar, who is 13.
The White House seems to have fully realized who Benjamin Netanyahu is: A weak Israeli leaderwithout anything substantially offering to Donald Trump, who seems to be more interested in commerce, business and Nobel Peace, rather than the continuation of funding an endless war.
This is a drastic change. When Trump won the election, Netanyahu thought he had a strong ally in the White House. He was the president himself who had recognized the annexation of Golan’s highlands from Israel and had transferred the US Embassy to Jerusalem to his first term. And he is the president who, after returning to power, has protected Netanyahu from the arrest warrant of the International Criminal Court, imposing sanctions on court and abboting a campaign of suppression of freedom of speech and super-Palestinian action in the US.
Now the president has left Netanyahu more Isolated, humiliated and ineffective from ever.
The message trump is giggling the “tsunami” of pressure against Israel
While the diplomatic “fever” around the tragic developments in Gaza is in full swing, Benjamin Netanyahu is underway through the international outcry for hard stagnation that make the world tour and the continuation of the war that he himself promised.
In the last few hours, according to the Axios news agency, Donald Trump has allegedly expressed his complete disappointment on Netanyahu movements in discussions he had with US officials, noting that “… Israel must end it immediately”. In fact, he allegedly asked his immediate associates to tell the Israeli prime minister that “The US President is very unhappy and asks for an end to an end”, They said two White House officials, maintaining their anonymity.
Although American and Israeli officials deny that Donald Trump is ready to “abandon” support in Israel or exerts strong pressure on Netanyahu, They admit that there are growing political differences between a president who wants to end the war and a prime minister who expands him.
No other white check
The US president, on his first tour of the Middle East since he took over his second term, will visit Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates – But not Israel.
For many analysts, Jerusalem’s absence from the program is not a mere diplomatic detail. It is the loudest indication that Donald Trump has decided to abandon white check policy towards Israel. And that comes the moment when Tel Aviv escalates his military attack on Gaza, indifferent to the international calls of truce.
The message is clear: Without results, there is no stop in Israel. “We will go some time, but not now,” Trump said, explaining that he has no “victory” to justify a visit – no ceasefire, no humanitarian aid plan, no new agreement.
Trump goes where there is benefit
What was once presented as a “special relationship” now looks like a monologue. Trump, as explains in his statements ton Guardian and CNN the former diplomat Alone Pinkas, “He’s not against Israel – he just doesn’t care.” If there is no benefit for himself, whether political or economic, he will not be mobilized. And right now, the Emirates, the Saudis and Qatar have much more to offer in money, weapons and spectacles than Netanyahu.
The big question is whether the rift can be restored. Netanyahu knows that he does not have the luxury of openly clashing with a president who is worshiped by his own Israeli audience. But as long as Washington moves autonomously, the agreements are signed behind the back of Israel, and as Trump progresses with his own plan for peace and rebuilding Gaza – a “Riviera of the Middle East”, as he says.