Netanyahu Heads to the U.S. for Trump’s First Meeting with a World Leader
Netayahu’s office: The meeting is a “testimony to the strength of the Israeli-American alliance.”
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is heading to the United States on Sunday, making him the first world leader to meet with President Donald Trump since his return to the White House two weeks ago.
The visit comes after President Trump invited the Israeli prime minister to the White House last week as he embarks on his historic second term.
I’m leaving for a very important meeting with @realDonaldTrump in Washington.
The fact that this would be President Trump’s first meeting with a foreign leader since his inauguration is telling.
I think it’s a testimony to the strength of the Israeli-American alliance. It’s… pic.twitter.com/wWYrC7mYrF
— Benjamin Netanyahu – בנימין נתניהו (@netanyahu) February 2, 2025
The meeting will take place in the backdrop of Israel releasing hundreds of Palestinian terrorists in return for 33 hostages, only 25 of whom are presumed to be alive, in the first phase of the U.S.-brokered three-phase hostages-for-terrorists deal. Israel has also enacted a ceasefire in Gaza and southern Lebanon despite repeated violations by Iran-backed Hamas and Hezbollah terrorist groups respectively.
Last week, President Trump urged Jordan, Egypt, and other neighboring Arab states to accept Palestinian refugees, displaced in the wake of Hamas’s October 7 terror attack on Israel. Jordan, a majority Palestinian state, was carved out of the British Mandate for Palestine in 1946, and Egypt had occupied Gaza till the Six-Day War of 1967.
Despite an initial rejection by both Jordan and Egypt, President Trump was optimistic that they would agree to his resettlement proposal, especially given their reliance on the U.S. for their military and other strategic needs. “They will do it. They’re gonna do it, okay?” he said responding to a reporter’s query at an Oval Office photo-op on Thursday. “We do a lot for them, and they’re gonna do it.”
President Trump when asked if Egypt and Jordan will take Palestinians from Gaza:
"They will do it. They are going to do it. We do a lot for them and they are going to do it." pic.twitter.com/rbCBoCWwjJ
— John Spencer (@SpencerGuard) January 31, 2025
The news agency Reuters reported ahead of the visit:
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu prepared to leave Israel on Sunday for a meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump, looking to strengthen ties with Washington after tensions with the previous White House administration over the war in Gaza.
Netanyahu, the first foreign leader to visit Trump since his inauguration last month, leaves with the ceasefire in Gaza still holding and negotiations aimed at a second phase expected to begin this week.
“The decisions we made in the war have already changed the face of the Middle East,” he said at the airport before his departure.
“Our decisions and the courage of our soldiers have redrawn the map. But I believe that working closely with President Trump, we can redraw it even further and for the better.”
Netanyahu, who faces an arrest warrant from the International Criminal Court over allegations of war crimes in Gaza, had strained relations with Trump’s predecessor Joe Biden and has not visited the White House since returning to office at the end of 2022.
The Israeli prime minister’s office in a statement said that during the visit the two leaders will discuss “important issues, critical issues facing Israel and our region: victory over Hamas, achieving the release of all our hostages and dealing with the Iranian terror axis in all its components—an axis that threatens the peace of Israel, the Middle East and the entire world.”
“The fact that this would be President Trump’s first meeting with a foreign leader since his inauguration is telling,” the prime minister’s office declared. The meeting is a “testimony to the strength of the Israeli-American alliance,” the statement added.
President Trump’s first term was truly historic for Israel, which saw the U.S. recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of the Jewish State and its sovereign right over the Golan Heights. In 2020, the Trump-brokered Abraham Accords framework established diplomatic relations between Israel and several Arab states, including the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, and Morocco.
Hamas ‘delegation’ heads to Moscow
Israeli prime minister will be in Washington as a group of senior Hamas terrorists head to Russia, a key ally of Iran, the Gaza-based terror group’s paymaster. Since the October 7 massacre, President Vladimir Putin’s regime has been working behind the scenes to forge unity between Hamas and various Palestinian terrorist groups.
“The deputy head of the Hamas terror group’s political arm will lead a delegation to Moscow on Monday, the RIA state news agency reports, citing an unnamed source,” The Times of Israel reported. “Hamas politburo member Mousa Abu Marzouk and his delegation will hold negotiations at the Russian Foreign Ministry, the source in the delegation tells RIA.”
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Be a terrible thing if something happened to all that international funding Egypt and Jordan get eh.
Then again, all they need to do is segregate them off somewhere remote under full surveillance for a short period of time before booting them back to their shit hole in Gaza so they can start shitting on their own doorsteps again.
Welcome back, Bibi!!
Whenever world leader comes up, I think of Fred Hoyle’s 50s sci fi novel where there was an astrophysical world crisis and experts from around the world convened in London to solve it.
There’s the same amusing presumption of importance.
Russia and Hamas+Palestinian terrorists (aren’t they all)
Russia will need to be dealt with
USSR 2.0. The Soviet Union was a major source of funding, supply, propaganda, arms & logistics for the Balestinian terrorists.
Russia will need to be dealt with
What measures do you suggest we employ for that purpose?
you might possibly be falling for the typical destabilization nonsense The Guardian’s been so well-known for
The Legal Case for Israel by Eugene Kontorovich.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPB4GkcpEDU
This talk appeared 11 years ago, and discusses Israel and International law. It’s strictly about international law which he defines (treaty and custom) and not any other aspect. Kontorovich is professor of international law at the Antonin Scalia Law School of law at George Mason University. This talk is mainly historical and very informative. It answers the frequency heard assertions that the state of Israel is an illegal occupier. It’s aimed at college students, but we can all learn from it. Highly recommended if you are interested in Israel, history and law.
Well worth reading his systematic demolition of the bogus claim that it is somehow illegal for Jews to live in Judea, Samaria & Aza.
What nerve the Russians have, collaborating with Islamic terrorists. Who do the Russians think they are — Americans?
https://www.timesofisrael.com/after-damascus-meeting-us-drops-10-million-terror-bounty-for-new-syrian-leader/
LOL. One of these things is not like the other.
Much different. Obama made Bibi sit in the kitchen, Biden either ignored him or demanded he surrender to terrorists and Trump did none of that. It is surprising that he will be the first world leader to visit since both Canada and Mexico are Right There, our largest trading partners and a trade war is ready to roll. I’d think they would show up.
Who was the first world leader to meet with Brandon?
Obviously, I’m NOT counting the Glandhanding Tour of Kamala’s Traveling Circus.
One of the big reasons that I voted for DJT for a 3rd time.
You want lasting peace between Israel and the Palestinians? Leadership change for the Palistinians: one that does not have genocide of the Jewish people as part of their founding charter, one that will not divert humanitarian aid for terrorist purposes but actually use that aid for it’s intended purposes. This new leadership also needs to not steep it’s people in rabid hatred of their neighbors as an everyday thing. Then keep that leadership (so long as it stays true to these goals) in power for the next couple of decades. That’s what it’s going to take for a chance at lasting peace because that’s what it will take to introduce cultural change in Palestinian society.
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