New meeting between Trump and Netanyahu today will decide the future of the truce with Hamas

The President of the United States, Donald Trump, will receive this Monday at his residence in Palm Beach, Florida, the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, a close ally.

During this fifth meeting of this year, Netanyahu may struggle to gain support from US presidentgiven the deterioration of their relationship, says the newspaper Washington Post.

Apparently, the Netanyahu’s Hardline Positions and Trump’s Go in Different Directions on various subjects of interest and which created tensions in the relationship, according to people close to the thinking of the two leaders and political observers, underlines the newspaper this Sunday.

“This is an emergency summit (Monday),” Dan Diker, president of the Jerusalem Center for Foreign Affairs and Security think tank, told the newspaper.

“The context is we need to clarify thingsbecause there were tensions between the two parties. “They have different timelines to reach the same destination: a Middle East liberated from the Iranian regime and its terrorist allies, particularly Hamas,” he said.

Washington Post He also points out that for the Israeli prime minister, Monday’s meeting with Trump – who is meeting today with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in his aim of achieving peace in the conflict with Russia – is an opportunity to convince him to adopt a tougher stance on Gaza and demand the disarmament of Hamas before Israeli troops withdraw further, as part of the second phase of the peace plan, according to Israeli sources.

Among the differences, the newspaper also mentions that on the Iranian issue, Netanyahu is seeking approval for another attack on the Islamic Republic’s ballistic missile program, possibly in a joint operation with the United States, despite the fact that Trump in June strongly demanded an end to the 12-day war between Israel and Iran and declared that Iran’s nuclear program had been “totally destroyed” by American bombers.

Likewise, mentions Israeli actions in Syria and Lebanon contrary to US interests.

According to Israeli officials citing Washington Postthe prime minister wants to talk with Trump what Israel considers a dangerous expansion of Iran’s ballistic missile capabilities and the possibility of new joint attacks between Israel and the United States, as the US president’s administration again attempts to approach negotiations with Tehran.

But among the conflicting questions, the one that occupies the interest of both is that of Gazaboth for its security implications and for its political importance and where the peace plan promoted by Washington has stalled after its first phase.

Republican expected to demand progress on ceasefire that the United States helped bring to fruition last October, through which Israel stopped its massive bombing of Gaza – although it continued sporadic attacks that have killed more than 400 Palestinians – and withdrew its troops to the so-called Yellow Line, a new border inside the Palestinian strip.