Trump said on the eve of the hastily arranged White House meeting set to begin at 11am that he was weighing sending a second US armada to the Middle East to pressure Tehran to reach a nuclear deal. But Netanyahu, making his sixth visit to the United States since Trump took office, will also be urging the US leader to take a harder line on Iran's ballistic missile program.
As Netanyahu announced his participation, Israeli airstrikes and tank fire killed 11 people across Gaza. Netanyahu announced on Wednesday that he is accepting an invitation from President Donald Trump to join the U.S.-led "Board of Peace" - the colonial body set to have control over and supposedly enforce "peace" in Gaza as Israel bombs Palestinians and freezes babies to death in its ongoing genocide.
(AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File) Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu confirmed Wednesday that he will join President Donald Trump's newly created Gaza Board of Peace. In a statement on Wednesday, the Israeli leader said he would take part in the body, which was formally established by the president as part of a sweeping 20-point plan to end the conflict between Israel and Hamas and oversee Gaza's reconstruction.
Presidential pardons are in fashion in the United States, even for people who haven't yet been found guilty of a crime. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is a well-known Americanophile. Now he, too, wants a preconviction pardon, a never-go-to-jail card. On Sunday, his lawyers submitted his request, stressing that freeing Netanyahu from his marathon corruption trial would be purely for the public good.
"They've been treating us very badly," Trump said before complaining about the "hundreds of thousands" of prisoners and mentally ill patients that Maduro allegedly dumped into the United States over the last few years "because Joe Biden was the worst president in the history of our country." Trump said that, although he "doubted" the U.S. would engage in a full-scale war with the South American nation, he couldn't yet rule out land strikes.
At the conclusion of the security consultations, Prime Minister Netanyahu instructed the military echelon to carry out immediate, powerful strikes in the Gaza Strip, Netanyahu's office announced in a brief statement, according to CNN. Netanyahu's decision comes after Hamas has violated the peace deal multiple times in the few weeks since it was brokered by President Donald Trump. Two Israeli Defense Forces soldiers were killed by terrorists last week in Rafah, in southern Gaza.
Dershowitz reportedly told the newspaper that Canada had made itself an enemy due to its recognition of a nonexistent entity a reference to Canada's recent recognition of the State of Palestine. Dershowitz who recently made headlines over his feud with a Martha's Vineyard pierogi vendor also accused Canada of not doing enough to combat antisemitism and said he was in favour of Trump putting tariffs on Canada for its statements regarding Israel and Netanyahu, and even sanctions perhaps.
Despite the staggering death toll and human suffering that Israel has inflicted on Gaza over the past two years, peace has still come too early for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at least in the eyes of some observers. Critics have accused the Israeli leader of using the war to deflect attention from challenges to his position, and even his freedom. With the ceasefire in Gaza now in place, none of those challenges has gone anywhere.