Netanyahu rejects Gaza plan
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has rejected US President Donald Trump’s 15-point Gaza peace plan, insisting that Israel will not withdraw its forces until Hamas is fully disarmed. The move
For years, the Israeli leader’s trips to Washington have been carefully choreographed. But things have changed since the last time the pair met, before the Iran war.
The meeting comes as both face pressures at home. Netanyahu is up for reelection, embattled in part due to his deteriorating relationship with Trump. Trump is under pressure to end an unpopular war.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is set to meet with President Donald Trump and attend the late Sen. Lindsey Graham’s funeral.
Benjamin Netanyahu has dispatched his top fixer to Washington in an effort to avert a diplomatic crisis with Donald Trump about the future of Gaza.
Benny Gantz’s center-right Blue and White party, thought to be in the same ideological lane as those two parties, also falls short in the poll. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s party leads the poll with 24 seats, while Yashar, led by his top rival Gadi Eisenkot, would win 23.
The Israeli public has moved right, but the parties of the Right are losing support, creating a battle for millions of voters who could determine the next government. Although the Israeli public has