Posted on 10/24/2025 10:13:54 AM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
U.S. President Donald Trump said he stopped Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu from fighting in Gaza, a war he said would have continued "for years" without his pressure on Netanyahu.
“He would have just kept going,” Trump told TIME in a newly published interview. “It could have gone on for years. It would have gone on for years. But I stopped him, and everybody came together when I stopped him.”
Trump and Netanyahu have heaped praise on each other publicly. But Trump has also shown signs of frustration with Netanyahu's hardline approach, saying in his recent speech to the Knesset that the Israeli leader "is not the easiest guy to deal with."
He also described Israel's strike on Hamas negotiators in Doha, Qatar, as "terrible" and “a tactical mistake” by Netanyahu. But Trump said the outrage over the attack was "one of the things that brought us all together" to ultimately deliver the ceasefire.
…U.S. Vice President JD Vance left Israel on Thursday after a two-day visit to shore up the fragile Trump peace plan amid mutual accusations of ceasefire violations by Hamas and Israel. While Vance was there, far-right Israeli lawmakers put forward a bill for Israel to annex the West Bank. He called it a "very stupid political stunt" and an "insult."
"The policy of the Trump administration is that the West Bank will not be annexed by Israel," Vance said.
The point was emphasized by Trump.
“It won’t happen because I gave my word to the Arab countries,” Trump told TIME on the issue of Israel annexing the West Bank. “Israel would lose all of its support from the United States if that happened.”
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Israel should annex the West Bank. But will never happen.
<< But Trump said the outrage over the [Doha] attack was “one of the things that brought us all together” to ultimately deliver the ceasefire. >>
Not the outrage, but the fear. The Hamass fat cats and their Qatari hosts suddenly realized they weren’t immune.
Snakes will be snakes, even after getting picked up by the President.
And give all the people who live in the West Bank the right to vote?
There is no such a people as “Palestinians”
They are Arabs and should be sent
back to Arab states.
Main problem is Arabs don’t want them.
Kind of like our Blacks in America.
We don’t want many blacks here either.
We don’t have a choice.
The Arabs do have a choice
and they have made it.
Good point.
Standing up to them is far more what he was elected to do than stand up to Netanyahu.
He campaigned for ten years against neocon foreign policy and keep us out of unnecessary foreign wars. Doubling down on Biden's failed strategy in Ukraine is absolutely the opposite of doing so.
He better not ride in any convertibles in Dallas.
Speed bump.
More to come...
Netanyahu wasn’t going to end the war in Gaza as long as he had those corruption charges hanging over his head. That’s why Trump made the appeal for his clemency in Israel a few days ago.
“blacks”
Most blacks live quiet lives.
The blacks that are criminal and obnoxious get noticed.
Both Nations can continue to blead out men for the way they have disrespected and spat in our face.
He should have fought the war 100 percent. President Trump gave him plenty of room to, but he didn’t do it.
“There is no such a people as “Palestinians”
They are Arabs and should be sent
back to Arab states.”
Sire, there are no people here. Should we refund the money we raised for the Crusade?
Rubio just trtetated that Hamas MUST didarm.
Hamas must disarm.
THE “ARAB COUNTRIES” NEED TO STOP HAMAS. PERIOD
Absolutely correct!
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