Trump and Netanyahu Posture Ahead of Wednesday Meeting on Iran
Ahead of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s visit to Washington to meet President Donald Trump, key differences and alignments are emerging on multiple fronts.
Trump stated that Netanyahu “wants a good deal” with Iran on its nuclear program and described ongoing Oman-mediated talks—following a brief 2025 Israel-Iran war and U.S. strikes on Iranian sites—as “very different” from past negotiations, expressing optimism that Iran “wants to make a deal very badly” while warning of potential tough military action, including additional carrier deployments, if diplomacy fails; he noted any agreement would address nuclear facilities, and possibly missiles.
In contrast, Trump explicitly opposed recent Israeli moves toward greater control in the West Bank, declaring “I am against annexation” and emphasizing other priorities, despite the Israeli Security Cabinet’s approval of measures—praised by Likud Energy Minister Eli Cohen as establishing “de facto sovereignty” that rules out a Palestinian state—including shifting building authority in Hebron, facilitating settler land purchases, repealing restrictions on non-Muslim real estate transactions, and expanding Israeli enforcement into Palestinian-controlled areas, actions that violate Oslo Accords and have drawn U.S. concern over regional stability.
Additionally, an Israeli source indicated Netanyahu will inform Trump that Phase 2 of the October 2025 U.S.-brokered Gaza ceasefire—requiring Hamas disarmament and Israeli troop withdrawal— “is not moving” due to Hamas’s refusal to relinquish weapons, with Israel arguing a renewed military operation is needed to enforce demilitarization in line with Trump’s Gaza vision, amid ongoing incidents and IDF strikes on suspected violators.
GhostofBasedPatrickHenry: Mr Bibi goes to Washington.
For the seventh time in the past 12 months.
That is roughly one trip every 7 weeks.
This will mark at least the third time that Bibi has made the trip in order to shill for war with Iran.
A few days before departing, his security cabinet announced new measures (implemented via executive power, not legislation) that will effectively grant the Israeli government sovereignty over the West Bank (Palestine) once its intended effect has played out.
The measures allow for the Israeli public to purchase tracts of land in Palestine and then register those properties with the Israeli government— rather than the Palestinian Authority. This registration would place the land under the authority and jurisdiction of the Jewish State, in the eyes of Netanyahu's Security Cabinet.
As you would expect, the Muslim leadership throughout the Middle East is enraged by this development. Even President Trump told Barak Ravid during an interview with him yesterday morning that he opposes annexation.
"I am against annexation.”
“We have enough things to think about now. We don’t need to be dealing with the West Bank,” he adds.
Perhaps this is why Netanyahu plans to meet with Rubio in the morning before meeting with Trump. Bibi wants to gameplan how to deal with him.
As President Trump clearly recognizes, the move is designed to be a provocation. Hamas is calling for kinetic escalation from the region against Israel—which is exactly what Netanyahu wants.
Speaking of Hamas, a report newly released by the Israeli government claims that Netanyahu knew about Hamas's plan to invade southern Israel as far back as early 2018, which means Bibi knew about the plan when he decided to step in and give Hamas tens of millions of dollars per month after the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank decided to cut off Hamas financially.
Netanyahu knew they were planning the attack, and didn't want to squander the opportunity to start a war, so he appealed to Qatar and said that there would be a humanitarian crisis if cash wasn't sent to Gaza. Qatar gave Netanyahu the money, and Netanyahu had his people walk it into Gaza and give it to prominent families with known ties to Hamas.
If all of this is true, then that means that Netanyahu knowingly funded October 7th.
On top of that, he intends to tell President Trump that the Board of Peace's Phase Two Plan to take control of Gaza will not happen, and that the US needs to immediately start a war with Iran.
Good Luck.
(I will be covering Netanyahu's visit today on Badlands Media.)


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