If Only Trump Would Tell Netanyahu What He Told Zelensky
I’m sure most readers have seen the fiery and angry dialogue between President Donald Trump and ex-Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in the Oval Office a few days ago. Trump admitted during the press conference that he let the conference continue as long as he did, knowing Zelensky would not like what Trump (and Vice President Vance) said and would become agitated and angry—which he did.
Trump played Zelensky the way Benjamin Netanyahu plays Trump.
Soon after the altercation in the White House, Trump announced he was suspending military aid to Ukraine.
It seems clear that Trump does indeed plan to put a stop to the war in Ukraine—without Russia returning any of the Ukrainian territories that voted to return to the Russian motherland, resulting in a genocidal campaign against them by Zelensky, and which Putin’s Special Military Operation has successfully liberated. And it’s also clear that the days at the helm in Ukraine for the corrupt and murderous Zelensky are numbered.
If only Trump would tell Israel’s corrupt and murderous Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu what he told Zelensky. But he never will. As with every president in modern memory, and the vast majority of the members of Congress in both parties, Trump is owned by the Israeli lobby.
Instead of Trump showing Netanyahu the door the way he did Zelensky, when Netanyahu visited the White House, he was treated like a king. Here’s the video of Trump showing deference to Netanyahu in the White House as if Netanyahu was the U.S. president and Trump was his subordinate (which, of course, Trump is).
Not only has Trump not demonstrated the slightest intention of stopping Israel’s genocidal ethnic cleansing of Gaza and the West Bank, but he has already taken steps to give Israel even more U.S. assistance in doing so.
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has signed a declaration to expedite the delivery of approximately $4 billion in military assistance to Israel, calling President Donald Trump the Jewish state’s great ally, according to a statement released on Saturday.
The move is part of the White House’s broader effort to bolster Israel’s military capabilities amid ongoing regional tensions. Since Trump took office on January 20, his administration has reportedly approved nearly $12 billion in major foreign military sales to West Jerusalem.
On Friday, the Pentagon announced that the State Department had approved the potential sale of nearly $3 billion worth of bombs, demolition kits, and other weaponry to Israel. That emergency approval bypassed the usual congressional review process, marking the second instance in recent weeks of expedited arms sales to Israel amid a fragile ceasefire with Hamas militants – in a war that has already claimed over 1,700 Israeli and 62,000 Palestinian lives.
In May, Biden temporarily stopped deliveries of 2,000-pound bombs to Israel and announced that more weapons could be embargoed if the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) pressed ahead with an invasion of Rafah in southern Gaza. The IDF entered the city regardless, and Biden eventually lifted the temporary arms freeze.
The State Department praised the latest decision to reverse Biden’s “partial arms embargo” as “yet another sign that Israel has no greater ally in the White House than President Trump.” Secretary Rubio invoked emergency authority
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