President Donald Trump is expected to meet with Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House on Tuesday in a high-stakes sit-down that comes at a politically fraught moment for the Israeli prime minister.The two leaders will discuss the conflict in Iran, the framework agreement for peace in Lebanon and efforts to expand the Abraham Accords, the official said.Trump will also meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the White House on Tuesday to discuss the war in Ukraine, a White House official said.The Israeli leader has seen support for the Iran war he’d long championed fall at home, and support for his government’s actions plummet in the United States.His relationship with Trump, whom he’s repeatedly called “the greatest friend that the state of Israel has ever had in the White House,” has appeared strained as well.
Asked Monday on Air Force One about Netanyahu criticizing his decision to sell F-35 jets to Turkey, Trump said, “Nobody tells me what we should be selling and not.” Asked if he and Netanyahu were on the same page when it comes to Iran, Trump said, “We have a little difference, but pretty close.”Netanyahu said at the start of an Israeli cabinet meeting on Sunday that he and Trump would discuss the state of the Iran war, which shows no signs of reaching a resolution.This month, the U.S.
carried out strikes for nearly two straight weeks, while Iran struck ships and American targets in the region.The sit-down will be their first face-to-face meeting since Axios reported last month that Trump had called Netanyahu “f---ing crazy” during a heated phone call.
Trump confirmed the report was accurate in an interview with the New York Post.“I was a little bit perturbed at his constantly fighting with Lebanon,” Trump said.Asked about the confrontation, Netanyahu said he and Trump sometimes have “tactical disagreements.” “We always find a way to work them out, and we do so as great friends,” he said.
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