"White House insiders let loose their growing irritation over Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's bizarre obsession with critical voices on the woke right like MAGA commentator Tucker Carlson as he prepares to meet with President Donald Trump on Monday. Netanyahu will visit the White House as the president pushes to finalize his 21-point Gaza peace plan. Trump has teased that an end to the war between Israel and Hamas is in its final stages with Arab nations in agreement on the plan."
"Everyone and I mean everyone is exasperated with Bibi, said one administration official, who added that White House envoy Steve Witkoff and Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner are both are at their wits' end with Israel. That cloud of irritation from Trump aides is also pointed at Netanyahu's fixation on U.S. domestic discourse. At a Friday gathering on the sidelines of the United Nations, Netanyahu courted pro-Trump influencers, urging them to fight online for Israel."
"We have to fight with weapons that apply to the battlefield, and the most important ones are on social media, he said, singling out X and TikTok. He then lashed out at what he called the woke right or the woke Reich, dismissing them as insane and lunatics. The remarks reignited tensions with Carlson, who has accused Netanyahu of boasting that I control Donald Trump. Netanyahu denied the claim during a Sunday appearance on Fox News."
White House aides express mounting frustration with Benjamin Netanyahu's attention to U.S. domestic influencers and critics such as Tucker Carlson as he prepares to meet President Donald Trump. The meeting centers on a 21-point Gaza peace plan that Trump says could end the Israel-Hamas war, with Arab nations reportedly in agreement. Aides portray the meeting as a binary choice for Netanyahu: endorse the plan or face a potential rupture with a president who has shielded him. Administration officials urge Netanyahu to concentrate on Israel and Gaza and to avoid entanglement in American political discourse and influencer campaigns.
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