{"id":15588,"date":"2026-06-16T22:01:29","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T22:01:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/siliconvalleymovingpost.com\/?p=15588"},"modified":"2026-06-16T22:01:29","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T22:01:29","slug":"trump-goes-after-netanyahu-as-he-pursues-deal-with-iran-putting-their-friendship-to-the-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/siliconvalleymovingpost.com\/?p=15588","title":{"rendered":"Trump goes after Netanyahu as he pursues deal with Iran, putting their friendship to the test"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>By MIKE CATALINI and THOMAS BEAUMONT<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told President Donald Trump last year that he was the \u201cgreatest friend Israel ever had in the White House.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/siliconvalleymovingpost.com\/?p=15586\">Sparks know \u2018defense is a choice\u2019 versus 1st-place Lynx<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Now, as Trump tries to finalize a deal to end the war with Iran, he\u2019s unloading on Netanyahu with rhetoric that no other American leader has dared to use publicly.<\/p>\n<p>He claimed credit for Israel\u2019s existence \u2014 \u201cwithout me, there would be no Israel\u201d \u2014 and cursed his judgment in interviews. He even described him as \u201ccrazy.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Netanyahu\u2019s tenure as prime minister spans four U.S. presidents, and he\u2019s frustrated all of them at one point or another. But none has voiced that as openly as Trump, who started the conflict in tandem with Netanyahu.<\/p>\n<p>The tension comes as Trump criticizes recent Israeli attacks in Lebanon, which threatened to jeopardize negotiations between Washington and Tehran. Trump has been pushing for a deal as he faces political blowback at home, where the war is unpopular and has driven up gasoline prices.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf Netanyahu gets in between something Trump really wants, and that\u2019s out of this war, he\u2019s prepared to use the leverage that he has,\u201d said Aaron David Miller, who served as an adviser on Middle East issues to Democratic and Republican administrations over two decades.<\/p>\n<p>An agreement is scheduled to be signed on Friday in Geneva. Speaking on Tuesday at the annual G7 summit in France, Trump said he told Netanyahu that he\u2019s been unhappy with his recent moves.<\/p>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cWithout the U.S., there would be no Israel. Without me, there would be no Israel because no other President was willing to do what I did,\u201d Trump said. \u201cI have had a great relationship with Bibi. Now Bibi has to be more responsible with respect to Lebanon.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>There has long been a bipartisan consensus around supporting Israel in Washington, but that has frayed in recent years. Liberals have been increasingly outraged by Israel\u2019s treatment of Palestinians, especially during the war in Gaza, and conservatives have questioned the importance of longstanding American support for Israel. There are concerns about antisemitism on the left and the right.<\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s latest comments drew swift criticism from left-leaning groups.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe is framing Israel\u2019s mere existence as contingent on him,\u201d said Halie Soifer, who leads the Jewish Democratic Council of America. \u201cIt\u2019s deeply offensive to the vast majority of Jews who care about Israel\u2019s future.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/siliconvalleymovingpost.com\/?p=15584\">2 Inland Empire men among those accused of plotting to attack UFC matches at White House<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<p>President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris often disagreed with Netanyahu during the war in Gaza, and sometimes they criticized him publicly. But they were more circumspect to avoid facing accusations of being anti-Israel.<\/p>\n<p>Conservative, pro-Israel groups were divided on the seriousness of Trump\u2019s public condemnation of Netanyahu.<\/p>\n<p>Republican Jewish Coalition President Matt Brooks described Trump\u2019s criticism as little more than the inevitable disagreement among family members.<\/p>\n<p>Brooks dismissed that any muted criticism of Trump\u2019s comments from his party represented a political mixed message because Trump has been reliably supportive of Israel as president.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf Biden or Harris said something critical, it came from the position of someone who was hostile toward or didn\u2019t have the same level of support for Israel that President Trump has,\u201d Brooks said.<\/p>\n<p>He noted the first Trump administration\u2019s role in moving the U.S. embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem and the return of Israeli hostages from Gaza during the president\u2019s second term, among other acts.<\/p>\n<p>Biden had criticized Netanyahu\u2019s handling of the war in Gaza, though Trump\u2019s criticism of Netanyahu comes with a \u201ctremendous reservoir of goodwill on this issue that neither Biden nor Harris ever had.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Conservative, pro-Israel advocate Mort Klein said Trump should have kept the comments private, especially in light of his public praise over the years of authoritarian leaders in Turkey, North Korea and China.<\/p>\n<p>Klein, president of Zionist Organization of America, said he worried that Trump was making the comments in public to appeal to Israel critics \u201cbecause he sees that Americans have become more hostile toward Israel than they\u2019ve ever been.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/siliconvalleymovingpost.com\/?p=15582\">Blanche set for July confirmation hearings for attorney general as Republicans weigh support<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat worries me,\u201d Klein said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump seems to be testing their friendship as he pressures Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu not to sink the agreement with Iran to end the war.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15587,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-based-on-facts-either-observed-and-verified-directly-by-the-reporter-or-reported-and-verified-from-knowledgeable-sources","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - 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