{"id":332188,"date":"2026-10-19T06:40:48","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T06:40:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=332188"},"modified":"2026-10-19T07:21:04","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T07:21:04","slug":"trump-gives-netanyahu-complete-and-total-endorsement-ahead-of-israeli-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=332188","title":{"rendered":"Trump gives Netanyahu \u2018complete and total endorsement\u2019 ahead of Israeli election"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Middle East Eye \u2013 Oct 18, 2026<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>U.S. President Donald Trump has declared his \u201ccomplete and total endorsement\u201d of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/countries\/israel\">Israeli<\/a> Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ahead of elections due in less than 10 days.<\/p>\n<p>In a message posted on his Truth Social platform on Sunday and addressed to the Israeli people, Trump praised Netanyahu as \u201cstrong, brave, and brilliant\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have watched Bibi [Netanyahu] under the most trying of times. Normal men or women in such situations would have wilted under the pressure \u2014 but Bibi did not wilt. He actually got stronger,\u201d Trump wrote.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPlease let this letter serve to represent my complete and total endorsement of Bibi Netanyahu in his upcoming race for re-election as prime minister of Israel. BIBI NETANYAHU WILL NEVER LET YOU DOWN!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trump said any alternative to Netanyahu would be the wrong choice for Israel.<\/p>\n<p>He also vowed that the US would \u201cfinish the job soon\u201d with Iran unless Tehran changed course. He suggested he would be reluctant to do so without Netanyahu in office.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf Israel has the wrong leader, which would be anyone other than Bibi, America will have to do this work ourselves, and I am not inclined to do so,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Netanyahu swiftly thanked Trump in a post on X.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThank you, President Trump, for your tremendous support and partnership,\u201d he wrote. \u201cTogether, we will complete the mission!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s endorsement comes as opinion polls point to a deadlock between Netanyahu\u2019s coalition and an opposition bloc led by former army chief Gadi Eisenkot.<\/p>\n<p>A Maariv poll published Sunday put each bloc at 51 seats, well short of the 61 needed for a parliamentary majority.<\/p>\n<p>The projected stalemate has persisted in polls ahead of the election, scheduled for 27 October.<\/p>\n<p>However, Eisenkot led Netanyahu by 48 percent to 41 percent when respondents were asked who was better suited to serve as prime minister.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/trump-gives-netanyahu-complete-and-total-endorsement-ahead-israeli-election\">Source\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a message posted on his Truth Social platform on Sunday and addressed to the Israeli people, Trump praised Netanyahu as \u201cstrong, brave, and brilliant\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":325530,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[77],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-332188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-feature-posts"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=332188"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":332189,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332188\/revisions\/332189"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/325530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=332188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=332188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=332188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}