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President Donald Trump He will visit Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates next week to improve the negotiations of high roles, but his journey comes because the cracks appear to have appeared in his relationship with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
On the agenda, they come to life hostages’s conversations with Israel and Hamas, exploring the ramp for war in Russia-Ukrain and potentially civil nuclear agreement with Saudi Arabia, even if the kingdom refuses to normalize ties with Israel.
However, the obvious cold between Trump and Netanyahu He attracted the attention of the observer in the Middle East.
Yanir Cozin, correspondent of the Israeli Radio Army, claimed this week that Trump “reduced the contact” with the Israeli leader. This report has not been confirmed independently, but it aligns with the growing perception in Israeli political circles that the Osre Trump-Netanyahu can fall apart.
President Donald Trump, okay, meets Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a meeting at which Trump has announced nuclear talks with Iran, Washington, DC, April 7, 2025. (Reuters/Kevin Mhatt)
“There is always a method of president’s madness, so to speak,” said Scott Feltman, Executive Vice President of the One Israel Fund. “Thought prevails [Trump] He very much wants Israel to stand on his two legs … To some extent he may give the premiere of a little difficult love. “
Sources said to Reuters Trump is ready to move forward with a civil nuclear agreement with Riyadh, even if Saudi Arabia gives up the normalization of relations with Israel – a dramatic shift and his first administration and Biden, which has tied such a contract to the wider normalization goals.
For Israel, this change can be disturbing. Riyadh has long insisted on the creation of the Palestinian state as a prerequisite for full relationships with Israel, rejected the outcome of Netanyahu.
During the weekend, it was revealed that Trump talked to the Duham Doha about the potential agreement for Qatar borrow now -u jets For the replacement of the Air Force. Israeli supporters have long been skeptical of Qatar, claiming it has to do with Hamas.
Meanwhile, frustration in Jerusalem grew this week when the US reached an agreement on the interruption of fire with the Yemeni militants. The agreement, mediated without the Israeli contribution, demanded that Houthhi stop attacks on the Red Sea shipbuilding, but did not mention their attacks on Israel.
“Trump has largely thrown Israel under the bus,” said Avius Melamed, a former Israeli intelligence official and a regional analyst. “I think the Israeli government is confused, uncomfortable … especially in the context of Houthis.”
Netanyahu made it clear that Israel will not rely on the US that he is dealing with the threat of a houthi. “Israel will defend herself with his own forces,” Defense Minister Israel Katz echoed the place on Thursday.
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We and Saudi flags flutter on the main highways of Riyadh ahead of the arrival of President Donald Trump to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, May 12, 2025. (Reuters/Hamad and Mohammed)
Despite the rhetoric, they are now continuing to support Israel’s defense. On Friday, the US rocket system intercepted rockets that were shot at Israel by Houthhi forces.
“The United States is not needed to get permission from Israel to make a kind of arrangement that Houthis would shoot on our ships,” said US Ambassador Mike Huckabee this week Israel’s Channel 12.
However, Huckabee was shot down by any report on tensions between the two world leaders.
“It is immensely and irresponsible that the press claims that @potus and @israelipm disagree,” ” Port He said in the post on X. “Bibi spent more time with @realdonalddraltrump than I had in the past 3 months and his ambassador! The relationship between us and Israel remains strong!”
“Israel has no better friend in his history than President Trump. We continue to work closely with our federal Israel to ensure that the remaining hostages in Gaza have been released, Iran never receives nuclear weapons and that the regional security in the Middle East,” spokesman for national security council, said Fox News Digital.
“It is immense and irresponsible that the press is stated that @potus and @israelipm disagree,” the US ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee said to the left. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images)
Other experts warn that they read too much in friction.
“The Israelites have never had false impressions that Houthis was now hit by the defendant Israel,” said Gregg Roman from the Middle East Forum. “It was to protect the global trade … and it’s not like they left Israel now.”
The novel also reduced the tension due to the potential Saudi nuclear agreement. “I think it’s safer Saudi ArabiaAt the end of the day, it will lead to a safer Israel. “
Netanyahu’s silence about Iran is added to the regional uncertainty. While his government has increased recent gains against Iranian proxies – Hamas, Hezbollah and Assad’s regime – so far has been refrained from public weighing in nuclear negotiations with Tehran.
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Still, Netanyahu says he remains in close contact with the Trump team about Iran. “I told President Trump that I hope he will do it negotiators,” he recently told reporters. “We are in close contact with the United States. But I said in one way or the other – Iran will not have a nuclear weapon.”
Trump “is not scheduled to visit Israel on this trip, and in fact I think it could be a good thing, because it can discover that he says from the Sunni that they are equally upset about the path that is currently going with negotiations with Iran,” Feltman said. “They have so much that they lose to the nuclear Iranian regime. “
