Once in Sync, Trump and Netanyahu Now Show Signs of Division

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

81% : A spokesperson for Trump said in March that the prize was illegitimate until Trump, "the ultimate peace president," was honored for his accomplishments.)
64% : " Trump and Netanyahu have for years publicly cited a warm and close relationship as evidence of their own political prowess and have flattered each other repeatedly.
53% : The news from Trump, which Israeli officials said was a surprise to Netanyahu, came only days after a Houthi missile struck Israel's main airport in Tel Aviv, prompting an Israeli response.
52% : "Trump is 'what you see is what you get' and rarely hides things.
51% : " John Bolton, who served as the national security adviser in the White House from 2018 to 2019, said Trump always viewed the relationship with Netanyahu as critical to his own political support in the United States, especially among evangelical voters.
51% : At the end of 2021, Trump used an expletive while recalling the snub in an interview with a book author.
47% : "They both have gone through similar experiences -- Bibi with the deep state in Israel and Donald Trump with the deep state in America.
45% : When it comes to Iran, Netanyahu and Trump may be operating on different timelines.
44% : People close to the two leaders say they are in some ways kindred spirits who respect each other for the political and personal attacks they have endured during their careers.
44% : Some families of the Israeli and American hostages still held in Gaza are working quietly to urge Trump to use his trip to the Middle East as an opportunity to put pressure on Netanyahu, according to people familiar with the diplomatic lobbying effort.
40% : " Two months later, in another White House visit, Netanyahu sat almost silently next to the president for more than a half-hour as Trump expounded on topics having nothing to do with Israel.
38% : Trump has long harbored anger about Netanyahu's decision to congratulate Biden on his 2020 election victory.
35% : But Trump has not wagged his finger at Netanyahu the way President Joe Biden did throughout the first year of the war in Gaza, which began after the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas-led attack on Israel.
33% : A right-wing newspaper usually aligned with the prime minister wrote this month that Netanyahu thought Trump "says all the right things" but does not deliver.
32% : But I didn't make it comfortable for them because I think we can make a deal without the attack," Trump said in the interview.
31% : In recent weeks, Trump has seemed less engaged in trying to resolve the conflict after bragging in February about his grand vision of creating a "Gaza Riviera" once the Palestinians had all been relocated to other countries.
30% : " This past week, Trump announced an agreement with the Iranian-backed Houthi militias in Yemen to halt U.S. airstrikes against the militants, who agreed to cease attacks against U.S. vessels in the Red Sea.
30% : The White House has said that Trump does not have plans to visit Israel on his trip to the region this week, though Huckabee said the president would visit the country by the end of the year.
27% : Trump came into office vowing to end the war between Israel and Hamas, end Palestinian suffering, and return the hostages whom the militant group seized in the Oct. 7, 2023, attack.
24% : Analysts in the Middle East and the United States say that changing the arc of history there in part hinges on how Trump and Netanyahu bridge their differences during a time of major geopolitical shifts.
23% : When Netanyahu visited the White House in April, some in Israel viewed the scene as embarrassing for the prime minister. Evans, who has known Netanyahu since he was a young man, said the prime minister would not relent, even if Trump did push him to end the war before the Israeli military had destroyed Hamas and returned all of the hostages.
22% : Trump even mused about expelling Palestinians from the Gaza Strip.
22% : In an interview with Time magazine in April, Trump said that he had argued against Netanyahu's proposal to launch a joint attack to set back Iran's nuclear program.
19% : It remains unclear how extensively Trump will confront the war in Gaza while he is in the Middle East.
18% : Instead, Trump has begun talks with Iran, leaving Netanyahu to warn that "a bad deal is worse than no deal.
17% : Trump has accused liberals in his government, judges and intelligence officials of conspiring against him.

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