Days after his defiant speech among the United Nations, which rejected the demands to end the war in Gaza, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will comply with his most vital supporter.
But the meeting on Monday with President Donald Trump in Washington comes at a delicate moment. Israel is increasingly isolated and loses support from many countries that have long been its steadfast allies. Netanyah’s government coalition appears more delicate than ever before. And the white house shows signs of impatience.
The question now is whether Trump, who steadfastly supported Netanyahu during the war, change his tone and express the pressure on Israel to finally alleviate the conflict.
In a post -Sunday on social media, the president said: “We have a real chance of size in the Middle East. Everyone is special, for the first time. We will make it !!!”
Trump and Netanyahu should meet in the Oval Office, and a joint press conference is expected later.
The uncertainty in connection with the meeting leaves it as “one of the most critical” in the years of relationship between the two leaders, said Professor Eytan Gilboa, an expert in US Israeli relationships at the universities of Bar-Ilan and Reichman.
“Netanyahu may have to choose between Trump and his coalition members,” said some, of which the war is to be continued, Gilboa said. A step of Netanyahu to end the war would leave it on shaky political soil a year before the elections.
Oded Ailam, a researcher at the Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs, agreed that Trump will probably demand a indefinite ceasefire and Netanyahu will be left with just a few options. Netanyahu has repeatedly sworn to continue the offensive until Hamas is destroyed.
Israel could try to record “red lines”
If Trump puts pressure on, the Israeli guide would probably try to include “red lines” in a deal, said Ailam. Ailam said that he could request that Hamas be dismantled. Netanyahu could also determine a condition that the Israeli military would have the right to work freely in Gaza if the militant group picks up fighting or returns to power.
During his tiny war war, Trump joined Iran with Netanyahu in June and ordered USSTEALTH -BOMBER to meet three nuclear sites, and he supported the Israeli guide during his corruption procedure and described the case as a “witch hunt”.
But the relationship has recently become tense. Trump was frustrated by the failed strike of Israel this month against the Hamas officials in Qatar, a US ally in the region, in which negotiations were held to end the war war in Gaza.
Washington’s most recent comments have pointed out to growing impatience. Last week, Trump swore to prevent Israel from annexing the West Bank-an idea, which was funded by some of Netanyahu’s hard-line government partners. The international community rejects annexion and says that it would destroy the hopes of a two-state solution.
Michael Doran, Senior Fellow at the Hudson Institute, dismissed the idea that Trump’s comments on West Bank were a sign of friction. He said the comments made it possible Netanyahu to resist the pressure of right -wing members of his government.
“It was a clever step of Trump,” said Doran. “At the same time, it showed the reaction to Arabic and Muslim allies, while they actually helped Netanyahu.”
On Friday, Trump increased expectations of the meeting with Netanyahu and announced reporters on the lawn of the White House that the United States was “very close to a deal about Gaza”.
Trump has made similar statements in the past to show nothing, and it is unclear whether this time will be different.
The proposal does not include the Palestinian designation
Trump’s proposal to stop the war in Gaza calls for an immediate ceasefire, the release of all hostages within 48 hours and a gradual withdrawal of the Israeli forces from the Palestinian enclave, such as three Arab officials who have been informed about the plan. They spoke under the condition of anonymity because the plan was not officially unveiled.
It is believed that Hamas holds 48 hostages, 20 of which is still alive of Israel. The militant group has demanded that Israel agree to end the war as a whole and to withdraw from all over the Gaza as part of a indefinite ceasefire.
Trump discussed the plan with Arab and Islamic leaders in New York on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly. It does not include the expulsion of the Palestinians from Gaza, which Trump seemed to be advocate at the beginning of this year.
The 21-point proposal also calls for an end to the Hamas rule of the Gaza Strip and the disarmament of the militant group, the officials who were informed about the plan. Hundreds of Palestinians, including many serving lifelong prison terms, are released according to Israel.
The plan also includes the establishment of an international security forces to take over the law enforcement authorities in the post-war Gaza, they said.
A Palestinian Technocrat Committee would monitor the civilian affairs of the strip, whereby power was later handed over to a reformed Palestinian authority, they said. Netanyahu rejected every role for the authority, the internationally recognized representative of the Palestinians, in the post -war gaza.
A Hamas officer said the group was informed about the plan, but has not yet received an official offer from Egyptian and Qataric mediators. The group repeatedly rejected the weapons and associated their weapons with the establishment of an independent Palestinian state.
Netanyahu confirmed the US plan on Sunday in an interview with Fox News and said that Israeli officials “worked with the team of President Trump … and I hope we can make it to look.”
In his speech on Friday at the United Nations, Netanyahu Trump praised several times and called him an necessary partner who “understands better than any other leader that Israel and America are exposed to a common threat”.
Israel has lost a immense part of the world’s good will
But apart from the US leadership, Israel has lost a immense part of the international goodwill that it could count on.
At a special meeting of the UN Security Council last week, the nation was horrified after the nation on the attack by Hamas militant in 2023, in which around 1,200 people were killed in Israel, when 251 were taken hostage and triggered the war. Then many representatives criticized the reaction of Israel and demanded an immediate ceasefire in the Gaza and an influx of facilitate.
Israel’s comprehensive offensive killed more than 66,000 Palestinians in Gaza, according to the Gaza Health Ministry, which is part of the Hamas government. The UN and many independent experts consider his figures as a reliable estimate. The battles have replaced 90% of the Gaza Strip population, with increasing number now starving.
In the past few weeks, 28 far -oriented countries, which circles behind Israel two years ago, have asked the offensive in Gaza Strip. They also criticized the restrictions of Israel for humanitarian aid that contributed to famine in parts of the Gaza Strip.
Ten invading the UK, France, Canada’s, Canada and Australia had recognized the Palestinian state. Several Arab states, including some of many relationships with Israel, have accused of having committed genocide in the Gaza Strip, as well as leading murderers, UN experts and some Israeli and international law groups. The United States’ highest court weighed the allegations of genocide levied by South Africa, which is vehemently denied Israel.
Aaron David Miller, who acted as a consultant on the Middle East of the Democratic and Republican administration, said there were too many unsolved problems to believe that an end to the conflict was nearby.
“The more crow is done about how we are in the last phase, the more skeptical,” he said.
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Geller reported from New York and Mednick from Jerusalem. Associated Press Writers Sam Magdy in Cairo; Joseph Krauss in Ottawa, Ontario; And Chris Megerian in Washington contributed to this report.
