Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was able to annoy many American presidents, but in relations with the US he could bet on his own – they assess American and British media. He was also able to completely change the position of Donald Trump on Iran, but their relationships were always close.
Politicalists assess that Netanyahu considers the US help to be absolutely obvious, because he is convinced that the support of American Evangelical Protestants, and especially the Christian Zionist Movement, guarantees that “Israel will remain well armed, regardless of how much it is in conflict with the White House,” explains Reuters.
“Guardian” points out that In just a week, Netanyahu radically changed Trump's attitude to an Iran attack. Despite the President's publicly declared aversion to engaging the US in wars and reports about problems in their relatives so far, the Israeli prime minister convinced Trump to bomb Iranian nuclear installations.
According to the New York Times Netanyahu “rightly assessed” that if he started the war with Iran, he could persuade Trump to join the US in this operationalthough he did not consult her with Washington, but only informed the president by phone, June 9 that Israel would attack Iran.
Surrounded by the president, sentences on support for this initiative were divided, but defense minister Pete HegeSeth, a friend of Netanyahu, was willing to “trust Israel” – reports “NYT”.
The close relationship of Trump and Netanyahu could play an important role here. “Washington Post” estimates that their measure is the fact that before the election in Israel in 2020 Trump sent his best advisers and specialists in election campaigns to help win his ally.
In the spring of this year, it seemed that Netanyahu, who was to be accused in connection with the allegations of corruption, would lose its election. Trump sent Susie Wiles to Jerusalem, currently the head of his office, Corey Lewandowski, who ran his presidential campaign in 2016, and Tony Fabrizio, a survey specialist – reports “WP”.
On the other hand, Trump understood during his first term that all misunderstandings with the Israeli government, and especially with the conservative Netanyahu, could expose him to the loss of the support of evangelicals, voting mostly on the vast majority of republicans. When in 2018 there was misunderstandings between the president and the Israeli prime minister, Mike Evans, Trump's adviser and the evangelical pastor, he asked him to “understand that Benjamin Netanyahu has much greater support among evangelical in America than himself” – reminded the Washington daily.
Netanyahu managed to expose himself to several American presidents; He was recently prime minister for the first time, when he met with Bill Clinton, he upset him with his lectures so that – as American diplomat Aaron David Miller, who witnessed these events – the president after these conversations said in the groove of rage: “For whom, he is helling, he thinks?
Netanyahu conflicted with President Barack Obama, who tried to block the construction of subsequent housing estates in the occupied territories and sought to create a Palestinian state. His reluctance turned into open hostility when Obama began negotiations, which were to be signed in 2015 with Iran of the nuclear agreement imposing restrictions on Tehran's nuclear initiatives, in exchange for withdrawal of Western sanctions.
And yet – emphasizes Reuters – eventually Netanyahu could always count on American help. “The New Republic” points out that The Israeli prime minister wants something more – to influence US foreign policy. He urged the administration of President George W. Bush to attack Iraq, tried to torpedo an agreement with Iran and change the position of the White House towards the Middle Eastern conflict.
“TNR” previously assessed that Washington has a long history of giving way to the Prime Minister of Israel, but it is Trump to the greatest extent “dances as Benjamin Netanyahu will play.”
In 2001, a conversation of “Bibie” was secretly recorded with settlers from the west shore, during which the prime minister said: “America is such a thing that is easy to move, move to the right direction (…). They will not disturb us” – quotes “The New Republic”. (PAP)
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