Posted on 03/03/2025 6:00:14 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu released a video Sunday thanking President Donald Trump profusely for his help in what seemed a pointed and deliberate contrast to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s behavior.
There were other reasons for the address: as Breitbart News reported, Trump had just expedited the delivery of $4 billion in arms (in contrast to President Joe Biden), and had offered a proposal for extending the Gaza ceasefire.
But the subtext was unmistakable. On Friday, Zelensky confronted the President and Vice President JD Vance in the Oval Office itself, in a display that offended many Americans and that struck the U.S. leaders as deeply ungrateful.
Netanyahu sought to strike a contrast, thanking Trump, in English, “for all you are doing to return our hostages, bolster our security and provide a future of prosperity and peace for all the peoples of the Middle East.”
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The MSM focuses on the issue of Zelensky failing to thank the US. I think the bigger issue for the Trump Administration is the games Zelensky kept playing. Pretending he would agree in private and then saying exactly the opposite in public, or playing bait and switch. Everyone involved - not just Trump - expressed incredible frustration with him. If he would have been straight with Trump and cut a deal, I suspect Trump would not have cared if Zelensky publicly thanked him.
How is the author able to divine the intentions and ulterior motives of Bibi? Isn't this a bit presumptuous of the article?
“Isn’t this a bit presumptuous of the article?”
Yes
I followed the link and listened to Bibi. He was most appreciative of President Trump’s efforts.
You and nwrep may think it’s presumptive but it is just as likely it was a deliberate act to offer contrast. Much of the world leaped at the chance to give little Zeke hero treatment for embarrassing “mean Mr.Trump” . Bibi is no fool, it would have been a smart move to do a public offset to the circus.
IF the rumors about Obama & other Dems advising Zelensky to not accept the deal are true-—THERE NEEDS TO A SEPERATE RECKONING ON THAT ALONE.
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