Following the prime minister’s address to a joint session of Congress on Wednesday and his conference with Joe Biden and Kamala Harris on Thursday, Donald Trump welcomed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to his Mar-a-Largo house on Friday.
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Trump claimed to a media conference following his appointment that choosing Harris might lead to” World War III.”
” We’ll see how it goes. But if it all works out, if we win, it’ll been pretty simple. It’s all going to work out. And really quickly”, Trump said. ” If we do n’t, you’re going to end up with major wars in the Middle East. And perhaps a third World War. You have never been so close to a third World War since the Second World War. We’ve never been so close because we have incompetent people running the country” . ,
Trump is hardly exaggerating. A wider conflict has become more possible thanks to Biden’s actions in Ukraine and Israel.  ,
In this instance, the presumed Democratic candidate unleashed a stream of censure of the Israeli prime minister after Netanyahu’s sit-down with Vice President Harris.
After claiming she supported Israel against Iran and Iran-backed armies, Harris complained about the “human struggling” in Gaza without identifying the suspect.
” What has happened in Gaza over the past nine months is devastating. The graphics of dead babies and eager hungry people fleeing for health, often displaced for the second, third or fourth time”, Harris told reporters. ” We may look away in the face of these tragedies. We ca n’t allow ourselves to become consumed by the suffering, and I wo n’t be silent.”
” I even expressed to the prime minister my deep concern about the magnitude of people suffering in Gaza, including the death of far too many innocent citizens. And I made it clear that I was concerned about the terrible humanitarian situation it,” she continued.  ,
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Hamas, who?
Netanyahu, much more experienced on the global stage than Harris, made it clear that the vice president’s notes were not good to the cause of peace.
At his conference with Trump, Netanyahu said to investigators,” I think the level that Hamas understands there’s no light between Israel and the United States, is, how much that makes the deal work.” ” And I hope that those comments do n’t alter that.”
In other words, lay down, opened up, and let the people handle things.
” I think her comment were disrespectful”, Trump told CNN’s Kristen Holmes on Friday. ” They were n’t very nice pertaining to Israel. I actually do n’t know how a person who is Jewish could vote for her, but that’s up to them”.
Trump has called himself the most “pro-Israel leader” in British history. That may be, but in recent years, that marriage has soured significantly. Trump criticized Netanyahu’s management of the war in its beginning stages
Trump’s presidency included a number of procedures that were implemented to Israel’s advantage, including moving the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, recognizing Israel’s right to control the Golan Heights, and supporting many nations in the Middle East and North Africa to restore normal relations with Israel as part of the Abraham Accords. Netanyahu hailed Trump as the best companion Israel has ever had and praised him for “unequivocally” standing by Israel during Trump’s time as commander in chief.
However, the relation grew strained after the 2020 presidential vote, when Netanyahu praised Biden for his defeat, which irritated the former president, who viewed the move as unfair. ” F**k him”, Trump told Axios , at the time.
Trump has even asserted that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu betrayed him in the last decades of his administration, arguing that Israel had to decide against participating in the 2020 attack that resulted in the death of major Iranian general Qasem Soleimani. Netanyahu “let us down”, Trump said at a protest in October 2023.
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All might not be forgiven, but both officials are in total agreement about Biden-Harris.
” Hopefully the remarks Harris made in her press conference wo n’t be interpreted by Hamas as daylight between the US and Israel, thereby making a deal harder to secure”, a senior , Israeli official told reporters.
” The more the gap widens between our nations, the more we move away from a bargain and therefore also increase the possibility of a local escalation”, said the senior official.
Hamas will use any opportunity to break up relations between Israel and the United States, and Harris has provided them with a job opening.
