Jacob Magid – Times of Israel Oct 30, 2024
Former US president Donald Trump has told Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that he wants Israel to wrap up the war in Gaza by the time he returns to office if he wins the election, two sources familiar with the matter revealed to The Times of Israel this week.
The message was first conveyed when the Republican presidential nominee hosted the Israeli premier at his Florida Mar-a-Lago resort in July, according to a former Trump administration official and an Israeli official.
While Trump has publicly confirmed having told Netanyahu that he wants Israel to win the war quickly, the sources speaking to The Times of Israel are the first to reveal that a timeline was attached to that request.
The former US official stressed that Trump wasn’t specific in his appeal to Netanyahu and could well back “residual” IDF activity in Gaza, so long as Jerusalem has officially ended the war.
Netanyahu has long stressed that Israel will maintain overriding security control of Gaza for the foreseeable future after the war, and other Israeli officials have spoken about the IDF maintaining a buffer zone inside the Strip while regularly re-entering areas throughout the enclave when it detects Hamas trying to regroup.
But the prime minister indicated on Monday that Israel is not yet at the conflict wrap-up stage, telling Likud MKs in a quickly leaked recording from a faction meeting that he cannot agree to Hamas’s demand to end the war in exchange for the 101 hostages it still holds.
Trump in recent weeks has indicated that he’d give Israel freer reign to make decisions, slamming US President Joe Biden for trying to restrict the potential targets of Jerusalem’s retaliation to Iran’s October 1 ballistic missile attack.
The former US official clarified that the pre-inauguration day victory that Trump wants Israel to secure in Gaza also includes the return of the hostages.
Trump, himself, warned at the Republican National Convention in July that those holding American hostages abroad will “pay a very big price” if they aren’t released before he assumes office.
The Trump campaign and Netanyahu’s office did not respond to requests for comment.
Trump and Netanyahu have spoken several times since their July Mar-a-Lago meeting, and Trump said last week that the prime minister had just called him two days in a row.
Earlier this month, two senior Israeli officials told The Times of Israel that they were concerned about Trump’s repeated calls for Israel to end the Gaza war quickly, fearing an inability to do so will lead to a clash if the former US president wins next week’s election and returns to office in January.
“There are internal political constraints to ending the war quickly,” one of the Israeli officials from the security establishment said at the time.
While declining to elaborate, he appeared to refer to the makeup of Netanyahu’s coalition, which includes far-right elements who have opposed hostage deal proposals conditioned on a permanent ceasefire in Gaza.
There is also near-unanimity within the Netanyahu government against allowing the Palestinian Authority to play a role in the governance of Gaza. A second Israeli official said this has contributed to the war dragging on, as Jerusalem struggles to find a viable alternative to fill the power vacuum in Gaza, thereby allowing Hamas to regain its footing in areas where the IDF has left.
A lawmaker from the opposition — also speaking on condition of anonymity — acknowledged that dragging out the war through the January 20 inauguration would also sour relations with Vice President Kamala Harris, if she were to win in November.
However, “Netanyahu has managed clashes with Democratic presidents without paying a heavy price. In fact, he campaigns on his ability to stand up to them,” the lawmaker said.
“A fight with Trump is something he hasn’t really had to deal with, and I think it’s something he’d want to avoid, but [Finance Minister Bezalel] Smotrich and [National Security Minister Itamar] Ben Gvir may not let him,” the MK added, referring to the far-right cabinet ministers whose support the premier needs to remain in power.
Trump told Netanyahu – yea right Ha Ha Ha.
Times of Israel???? Ha Ha Ha
Net might say that the American Air Defences did not work when Iran attacked
I can def see a Mussolini style end for the Kosher Nostra Don & his family..
strung up naked on piano wire naked & disembowelled.
Maybe the end of the whole kike empire..if we chase them out of our countries!
McGregor says RAF refuelling planes used by IAF on failed Iran attack… outrageous!
the silverback inhabiting the FO needs deporting to Rwanda for Ebola clinical trials ..or something useful he can do
“Trump told Netanyahu he wants Gaza war over by time he enters office — sources”
Well, he just lost the election. Of course not a word can be trusted that proceeds from the Orange Man’s mouth. He’s as wishy washy as a child. He’s no different than his Demoncrat opponent. Both are tripping over one another for the jew cock.
I guess he still can’t understand the old adage:
What the jew giveth, the jew taketh away. Just ask the filth over in Hollywood.
The remaining white moronic masses of the USA don’t even realize that both parties (R/D) are managed by the CIA (Commie Insane Agency). Thus no matter who they vote for–the Commies, wogs & yids always win. Same basic setup in the UK vis a vis the phony polarity of Labour/Tory except MarxistI5 directs them.
This is probably disinformation…..considering Trumps close connection to Israel via his formerly Big nosed daughter….she had her big nose “de-zionised” via cosmetic surgery.
Lerch and others are correct here–by telling Satan-yahu to stop the genocide, Trump just did lose the election! Good work, “orange man”! Seriously, the only way Trump was going to win was becaue Satan-yahu would demand it. What Satan-yahu wants, Satan-yahu gets (sponsored by the Rothschilds, of course).
Some might have noticed this that only a President or a special envoy can negotiate with a Foreign Head of State ..
Israel will do what it wants. Trump, like other US President’s will do what he is told to do.
Although Kazakhstan a glorious country, it have a problem too: economic, social & Jew.
Make Kazakhstan Great Again
Yeah, sure. And Chump told the Rothschild clan he wants them to return all the money they’ve been stealing and told organized Jewry to stop their centuries-long rampage of degradation and destruction. Chump willingly has Jew cock plunging both ends while he tugs away at a couple more with both hands.
Ha…
Great.. the Slimes of Israel is quite an organ…if one is searching for the latest cover stories, machiavellian zionist chess move, or just want to have a chuckle a ‘jewe’ solipsism..make for the Times…
I wonder though, that whilst Drumpf gave little Benny Milekowski the ‘hard’ words..if he wasn’t simultaneously giving him thirty nine standing ovations, bobbing up and down like a little orange turd in the DC cess pit..
Sanction Israel into the ground.
That seems to be the modus operendi these days.
Nothing in or out you cant manufacture yourselves – which, of course, is precisely JACK SHIT