Long gone are the days when Netanyahu was naming an (illegal) Israeli settlement on the Golan Heights Trumpville (Ramat Trump). Nevermind that no one every moved there and it’s still just a billboard and a pile of rubble. It was still the apex of the friendship between Trump and Netanyahu. And when Netanyahu congratulated Biden on his 2020 election victory Trump went crazy and the relationship between Trump and Netanyahu has been on a downward spiral since then.
Speaking at an event in West Palm on Wednesday, Trump attacked Netanyahu for— he claimed— pulling out of the operation to assassinate Qasem Soleimani in 2020 at the last minute and complimented Hezbollah (“very smart”). Trump said “I’ll never forget that Bibi Netanyahu let us down. That was a very terrible thing… We were disappointed by that. Very disappointed. But we did the job ourself and it was absolute precision, a magnificent, beautiful job. And then Bibi tried to take credit for it. That didn’t make me feel too good but that’s all right… They’ll say, ‘Oh, it’s classified information.’ Well, maybe it is, but I don’t think so.” DeSantis was the first to attack Trump for this. He won’t be the last.
In fact, the AP reported that Israel’s Communications Minister Shlomo Karhi told Channel 13 that it is “shameful that a man like that, a former US president, abets propaganda and disseminates things that wound the spirit of Israel’s fighters and its citizens… “We don’t have to bother with him and the nonsense he spouts,” Karhi says. Asked if Trump’s comments make it clear that he can’t be relied on, Karhi replies, “Obviously.”
Trump has told his cronies that he wants to see Netanyahu impeached, “using the crisis to plot revenge on the Israeli prime minister who refused to buy into the lie that the 2020 election was stolen.” Adam Rawnsley and Aswan Suebsaeng reported that Trump “has expressed his strong desire for Netanyahu to be gone by the time Trump would potentially be back in office in 2025, the sources recount. Since Hamas attacked Israel on Saturday, Trump has said Netanyahu should be ‘impeached’ by the Israeli parliament because the assault— which was preceded by an apparently catastrophic intelligence failure on the part of Netanyahu’s government— occurred on his watch. (Israel’s parliament cannot ‘impeach’ a prime minister in the same way Congress can impeach a president in the United States). Trump has also asked multiple longtime advisers if he should now publicly call for Netanyahu to step down as prime minister. Some confidants and allies have recently recommended that he not do this this week, as the dead are still being counted and a major war seems underway.”
But in his own private ranting against Netanyahu, Trump has made it abundantly clear that his fury at Netanyahu is driven more by preexisting personal animus than by the Israeli leader’s performance in office during the Gaza offensive. The former president has derisively compared the “very weak” Netanyahu to the majority of American Jewish voters who support Democratic President Joe Biden, and has assailed Netanyahu’s intelligence and alleged corruption.
Over the past few days, during these conversations that started as focusing on the horrifying situation in Israel, Trump has — naturally — found ways to quickly pivot to Netanyahu’s ultimate betrayal of failing to back Trump’s post-election lies while congratulating Biden on his victory. It’s hard to overstate how much that enraged Trump, and how his distrust and bitterness have persisted even in this moment of crisis. Though Trump has a reputation for profuse vulgarity in private, he typically tries to refrain from publicly telling other world leaders to go “fuck” themselves. Trump, however, made an apparent exception in Netanyahu’s case.
…Trump’s attempts to contrast his record on Israel comes as President Biden— who has had an at-times tense relationship with Netanyahu— has earned praise from Israelis and even some Republicans for his administration’s response to the crisis.
David Friedman, Trump’s former ambassador to Israel, took to Twitter Wednesday to say that he was “deeply grateful” for the “moral, tactical, diplomatic and military support that [the Biden administration] has provided Israel over the past few days,” calling it “exceptional.”
This morning Palestinians packed whatever belongings they could carry and left their homes in northern Gaza-- which includes Gaza City-- on Friday after Israel ordered the evacuation of aroiund 1.1 million civilian to the south of the blockaded coastal strip, a precursor to a ground invasion. Imagine if everyone in Boston and the small cities around it like Dedham, Quincy, Braintree, Walthan and Lynn were ordered to pack up and head for Maine's Allagash.
you think jews COULD obliterate trump, the leader of america's party of antisemitism?
bibi and trump are the same guy. They wanna be fuhrer of their "respective" reichs.
as one would expect, if they'd been paying attention since the '60s, OURS is a retard.
There can be only one Caesar I suppose. That's why they don't get along.