Benjamin Netanyahu, Trump and Israel
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President Donald Trump heads to the Middle East for peace deals and business negotiations, even as tensions allegedly rise with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu would normally celebrate a hostage release such as that taking place on Monday, though in this case the deal with Hamas is another sign US President Donald Trump is starting to make decisions without him.
Benjamin Netanyahu and Israel are "worried about any deal" President Trump might strike with Iran, one source told NBC News.
The White House has called Trump’s visit a “historic return to the Middle East” but Israel is once again not on the itinerary.
Trump cuts ties with Netanyahu over concerns of manipulation, Israeli media reports. According to Israeli Army Radio, the U.S. president stopped direct contact after being told by close aides that Netanyahu was trying to play him.
This moment is testing the relationship of the two men, both of whom are politically divisive, fiercely combative and have outsize egos.
The poll also found that only a fraction of American Jewish voters believe Trump's campus crackdown reduced antisemitism.
What the US deal with Hamas says about Trump’s spat with Netanyahu - ANALYSIS: The release of the last American held captive in Gaza, brokered directly between the US and Hamas, comes amid swirling ru
By Yousef Saba, Gram Slattery, Pesha Magid and Nafisa Eltahir RIYADH (Reuters) -President Donald Trump kicked off his trip to the Gulf on Tuesday with a surprise announcement that the United States will lift long-standing sanctions on Syria,
Trump is clearly distancing himself from Netanyahu—and moving the United States away from Israel’s preferred maximalist policies toward Iran and the Middle East as a whole.
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