Netanyahu is the strange man in Trump's Middle East trip

Abu Dhabi – When President Donald Trump was shot in the Middle East this week, he announced the star of elaborate ceremonies, announced new US guidelines and unveiled new business partnerships in billions of dollars.

He even visited a mosque and noticed the pride for “my friends” when he recorded his beauty. “This is an incredible culture,” said Trump.

But an omission on the trip became sick with every stopover: Israel.

The tensions between Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gave up before the president spent the week to visit three of the American most important Arab allies: Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates.

At the end of the trip on Friday, Trump seemed to continue to burden the relationship. He had spent the last few days to meet the new leader of Syria -a former Al -Qaida leader whom the United States occupied at $ 10 million -and announced that in a move, the Israel, against the crown prince Mohammed bin Salman from Saudi Arabia, had lifted the country that could take up the president.

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Trump said reporters that he discussed the sanction decision with Netanyahu and supported them as widely from others.

“I think it was very popular, certainly in the Middle East,” said Trump. He also quoted conversations with Bin Salman and the Turkish Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who, as he claimed, considered a critical move for his chance of survival as a country.

One day after he had promised to raise the sanctions, Trump praised the Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa as a “young, attractive guy-a tough guy” and asked the former rebel fighter to join the Abraham's Agreement's Agreement from his first term of office, which normalized the relationship between Israel and several Arab states.

During the trip, Trump also leaned into the idea of ​​a contract that Iran was striking away without presenting details to take some of the concerns of Israel into account. And on the eve of the President's trip, his government announced that it concluded a one-sided contract with Hamas, the US terrorist organization, which had attacked Israel on October 7, 2023, to secure the publication of the last living American hostage in Gaza.

“Hopefully this is the first of these last steps that are necessary to end this brutal conflict,” said Trump about Edan Alexander's release. He added on Friday that “we will find out pretty soon” when Israel is able to free the almost two dozen hostages, which is believed to be alive in Gaza.

Netanyahu bombed in the meantime during Trump's trip to the Gaza region and has killed more than 100 people in the past 24 hours, according to the local health authorities.

When asked about Israel's plans for the expansion of the war in Gaza, when he urges a ceasefire, Trump scored a measured tone.

“I think a lot of good things will happen next month and we'll see. We also have to help the Palestinians,” said Trump. “You know, many people are starving in Gaza, so we have to look at both sides.”

Nevertheless, Israel is increasingly concerned that Trump concludes a fast nuclear deal with Iran and the Arab leader who shape the president's thinking, a person who is familiar with the dynamics between Trump and Netanyahu said.

“The trip has not made as much distance between Trump and Netanyahu as it exposed it,” said this person.

Trump, who spoke to reporters, rejected the idea that his journey marginalized the closest allies in the region. He said on Wednesday that the United States has a strong relationship with Arab leaders, “very good for Israel”.

In four break days of the shop, the Arab leaders showed their ability to offer Trump tangible economic victories, which he can benefit from overseas as the Americans at home, as well as the kind of welcome with the president.

“The work that you did in a pretty short time is just excellent. They are great people. Great leaders. Three big leaders,” Trump told reporters on Friday when he returned to Washington, DC “and the respect that showed our country was incredible. Nobody was treated like this.”

Trump's relationship with Netanyahu, on the other hand, largely focuses on national security concerns, from Iran to the war in the Gaza Strip to the changing dynamics in Syria.

So far, Israel has largely kept these concerns behind the scenes – which was not the case with former presidents, especially Barack Obama and Joe Biden, even if they swore to protect America's “unbreakable bond” to Israel. And the United States continues to support Israel, with Trump sending military equipment that the bidges had sent during the break.

In a statement, the spokesman for the National Security Council, James Hewitt, described Trump as Israel's most decided in his history.

“Israel had no better friend in his history as President Trump,” said Hewitt. “We continue to work closely with our allied Israel to ensure that the remaining hostages are freed in Gaza. Iran never gets a nuclear weapon and to strengthen regional security in the Middle East.”

Hewitt added: “As he repeatedly explained in his first and second term, the president is committed to ensuring that Iran never receives a nuclear weapon.”

As for the dynamics between Trump and Netanyahu next, an ally of the President caused the case that the deepening of relationships with Arab leaders will ultimately protect Israel because he has a close relationship with the USA at the same time that Trump's unpredictability from Trump said, said Trump: “Trump does what that is doing.”