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As he has repeatedly stated in his first and second terms, the President is committed to ensuring Iran never obtains a nuclear weapon.”
Hewitt added
The trip hasn’t so much put distance between Trump and Netanyahu as it has exposed it,
this person saidHopefully this is the first of those final steps necessary to end this brutal conflict,
Trump said of the release of Edan AlexanderI think it’s been very popular, certainly in the Middle East,
Trump saidThe job they’ve done in a fairly short period of time is just outstanding. They’re great people. Great leaders. Three great leaders, ... And the respect shown to our country was incredible. Because nobody is treated like that.”
Trump told reporters Friday as he headed back to Washington, D.CTrump does what Trump does.”
At the same time, the ally noted Trump’s characteristic unpredictability, sayingI think a lot of good things are going to happen over the next month, and we’re going to see. We have to help also out the Palestinians,
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Israel’s policy is clear: no humanitarian aid will enter Gaza.”
The defence minister, Israel Katz, spelled it out last month
I like you too much,
he said to Prince Mohammed, asking the de-facto ruler once snubbed by Washington for his reliance on the bone saw if he ever found time to sleep, given how energetically he had transformed his kingdom
In the coming days, we will go in with full force to complete the operation,
Netanyahu said, according to a video released by his office
We’re looking at Gaza, and we gotta get that taken care of,
he saidWe could have been in the central position, in shaping the new Middle East, as Trump is doing now,
Dayan said
The war really disturbs Trump. But at the end of the day, if they don't reach a deal, then nobody would stop Netanyahu from expanding the war. The American's won't do it,
Dayan saidNetanyahu can only give him two things that he's refused to give until now: A ceasefire in Gaza, which Netanyahu violated himself in March — [perhaps] he misinterpreted Trump's laziness or disinterest as some kind of green light to attack again. And the second is Iran,
Pinkas continuedI have concepts for Gaza that I think are very good. Make it a freedom zone, let the United States get involved and make it just a freedom zone."
During his visit in Qatar, Trump saidThere are many things that should worry us — from the huge military deals with the Saudis and the Iranian issue,
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If you take the last month and certainly the last week, in a series of moves and a series of statements, Trump not only completely sidelined Netanyahu and kept him out of the loop, but marginalized Israel as if it was not an ally,
former senior Israeli diplomat Alon Pinkas, now a columnist for the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, told DWI hear voices in Israel saying that he completely sidelined Netanyahu, but I think it more complicated than that,
Yaki Dayan, a former Israeli consul general in the US, and now a frequent commentator on Israeli-American relations in local media, told DWI think that one of the things that Trump wanted from Israel is to finish the war in Gaza, which Netanyahu is not giving him."
But,In Trump’s worldview, Israel is not necessarily a strategic ally in the deep, classic and values-based sense, but more of a ‘premium client,’ perhaps even a Middle Eastern ‘real estate asset,’
wrote Oded Ailam, a former top Israeli intelligence official, in Israel Hayom, a popular daily