Netanyahu must now work in Gaza for the support of us as Trump tires from Israel's war | Israel-Gaza War

Steve Witkoff, the Messenger of Trump's envoy in the Middle East, did not collapse his words. In a meeting on Sunday with former hostages and relatives of those who were still kept in Gaza, he told them that Israel was promoting a war that the United States wanted to end, the local media reported.

On the eve of the publication of Edan Alexander, the last living American who was held by Hamas, Witkoff exhibited the Gulf between his boss and the government of Benjamin Netanyahu.

“We want to bring the hostages home, but Israel is not ready to end the war. Israel extends it – although we don't see where we can go and that an agreement has to be made,” said Witkoff, according to Channel 12 television and quoted sources that were present.

It was the latest in a series of top-class and high-ranking pieces from the White House, which indicates that the most important ally of Israel with his government is frustrated and possibly losing interest in his assets.

“Trump is not against Israel, but he doesn't care about Israel,” said Alon Pinkas, a former Israeli diplomat. “As for Trump, Netanyahu is a charm and irritant that does not contribute to the bank account.”

Trump may not have started the open attacks that his relationship with other leaders who want to end a war, which he would end, how Ukraine -Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Russia's Vladimir Putin have shaped.

Last week, Trump announced a ceasefire with the Iranian -supported Houthis in Yemen, who had excluded Israel. He described the Houthi rebels just a few days after one of her rockets had reached Israel's main airport, and prompted many international airlines to suspend flights. Houthi attacks on Israel continued.

Previously, he dismissed Israeli demands for military measures against Iran and opened talks with Tehran on the end of his nuclear program.

Days after the Agreement of the Houthi Waffenailge infiltrated the news that the Trump government had reduced a claim from the bid era that connected the progress of a Saudi Arabic civil atom program with the normalization of relationships with Israel.

Saudi Arabia has excluded normalization while Israel has war in the Gaza Strip. Trump's move made it clear that he does not want his hands to be tied up while he was going to Riad later this week, to seal billions of dollars in the expected offers.

His first trip to the region since returning to the White House will also include visits to Qatar and the United Arab Emirates, but not Israel. This conspicuous absence of the presidential route would have been unthinkable in recent decades.

Ilan Baruch, a former Israeli ambassador who is now heading the political working group, who is committed to a two-state solution, said: “Trump seems to be a bluntly new trajectory.

“Israel expected the Trump government to remain the course within a paradigm of” common convictions and mutual strategic interests “. Trump is the first president of a generation to question this equation.”

Strong, long-term support for Israel under large parts of Trump's republican basis means that Netanyahu is able to keep US support than a leader like the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, said Nadav Eyal, a research scientist at Columbia University and a commentator of the Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth.

“How serious the damage is, I would just say that it doesn't take … no blown crisis yet,” he said. “I suspect that both sides will try to mitigate, negotiate and not do it for a public confrontation.”

Nevertheless, Netanyahus celebrated the Israel-USA at the beginning of the year when he was the first foreign leader to be invited to Trump's second-term white house.

Although Alexander's release was agreed without Israeli input, Netanyahu did not answer gratefully at first, but thanked Trump, but that she claimed a credit for it.

“The expected publication of the IDF soldier, Edan Alexander in return without anything, will be possible due to the energetic policy that we have led with the support of President Trump, and thanks to the military pressure of IDF soldiers in the Gaza Strip,” said his office in an explanation before his planned release.

He is already facing the anger of the hostage families and their supporters who say that he expands the war – and their suffering – for personal political profits. One, Einav Tsengauker, described the Prime Minister on Monday as an “angel of death”.

But Netanyahus Truculent reaction to the publication of Alexander risks to improve the trouble of a much stronger enemy, the endless appetite of praise and respect today is the basis of global foreign policy from Beijing to Brussels.

Trump's post, in which Alexander's publication was celebrated, explained what he would like to see next. “Hopefully this is the first of these last steps that are necessary to end this brutal conflict. I look very good for this day of the celebration!”

In Israel there is a broad support for the termination of the war in return for the publication of all hostages. More than two thirds of the country show opinion polls.

But those who want to continue fighting are the leaders of two extreme right -wing parties in the heart of Netanyahus coalition. This may leave Netanyahu before the choice between the support of his government or the support of Israel's important relationship.

“If he wants Trump back to his side, he has to do things that would cost the coalition,” said Pinkas, the former diplomat. “If you look at his biography and experience, he should be fully aware of all of this. If you look at his behavior, it is as if he has no idea what's going on.”