Posted on 04/06/2025 4:06:14 PM PDT by Macho MAGA Man
The two leaders are expected to discuss US tariffs on Israel, the war in Gaza and Iran’s rapidly growing nuclear program.
If the visit does take place, Netanyahu will be the first foreign leader to meet with Trump since he announced plans to impose reciprocal tariffs on dozens of nations.
Imports from Israel will be hit with a 17% levy under the president’s plan.
Netanyahu will likely attempt to negotiate a deal to remove the new tariffs on the Jewish state.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
We will see.
The tariff imposition poses “a major challenge” to Israel’s economy. Israeli authorities contacted the US “in order to guarantee Israel’s exemption and/or reduce the taxes imposed”. In 2024, the US had a trade deficit with Israel of some $7 billion, according to data from the US Dept of Commerce.
On the plus side, China is Israel’s 2nd largest trading partner,
with total trade value reaching a whopping $24.45 billion.
BACKSTORY-—Trump (and Biden) restricted sensitive technological exports to China. As a result, China turned to cooperative Israel. China’s direct investment in Israel’s IT industry, especially in chips and semiconductors, now has increased.
In 2017, Israeli PM Netanyahu said China accounts for one-third of the investment in Israeli high technology, which includes US military technology the US shares w/ Israel, its strongest ally. In the ’90s, Israel sold military equipment and technologies to China, including the Harpy missile system.
This incident chilled relations between the United States and Israel, with Israel being suspended from its status as Security Cooperative Participant in the Joint Strike Fighter program. However, on 6 November 2005, Israel stated that it has been re-admitted into the program.
The US had to pressure Israel to stop sharing US military technology w/ China. Yet Israel still doesn’t restrict China from acquiring dual-usage technologies that could have military implications against the US, negatively impacting US families’ safety and security.
A succession of US administrations warned Israel about its growing tie with China, sharing concern about China using Israel as a backdoor to access sensitive technologies from the US.
The most vocal objection to Sino-Israeli ties came from the Trump administration. When former Secy of State Mike Pompeo visited Israel in 2019, he warned Israelis that the CCP “engages in spying through its commercial state-owned enterprises and presents risk through its technology systems. Pompeo said China’s actions posed a risk.
Unfortunately, Israel largely brushed aside the warnings. Like many other countries, China’s massive market has enticed Israel. Plus, the Israeli government hopes China’s good relationships with Arab nations may help Israel.
Cooperative Netanyahu was working on a Sino-Israeli free trade agreement and planned to visit China. But China’s siding w/ Hamas after the Oct attack alerted Israel to the reality that Communist China’s relationship with Israel is purely transactional.
When "our Greatest Ally and Best Friend" sells American military secrets to China ... crickets.
You seem to forget if FReepers grouse about “our Greatest Mideast Ally and
Best Friend” selling American military secrets to China they wont meet Jesus.
No, it’s because you single out Israel,and accuse her of war crimes.
Whoops, looks like defending one’s country is a no-no on these threads.
Go figure.....an American taxpayer defending one’s country gets you on “the list of bums.”
So...China will be laundering its exports through Israel?
POTUS Trump called them “reciprocal” but the tariff percentage was tied into the trade deficit with each particular country. Netanyahu will not be able to argue “since Israel is zero, the US needs to be zero. POTUS Trump is going to want a number that brings balance.
Thus any pushback will by its nature be a "singling out" of Israel.
The very article posted says that Netanyahu is seeking "exemptions" for Israel. Which sounds like he wants Israel to be "singled out" for special treatment.
Perhaps they'll agree to keep the tariffs on Israel, for Trump to save face. But to increase our aid package to Israel to make up for any loss to Israel.
No, ALL Nations are trying to speak that now, that’s the point, and ALL Nations, yes including Israel, have reached of of us.
Netenyahu is NOT a globalist. It is the globalist Israli Deep State that sell out thier own people. (Like here), that hate hom.
https://x.com/Cernovich/status/1909039918879580610
Cernovich
@Cernovich
Isn’t it interesting that Israel had huge tariffs on American goods, despite the billions in money we send them, and nobody who is currently outraged at Trump ever said anything about this nonsense?
7:25 PM · Apr 6, 2025
Supposedly, Ron Nava was Peter Navarro.
3/2017
Speaking before a gathering of business people from both countries, the Israeli prime minister encouraged China “to assume its rightful place… on the world stage.”
“We are your perfect junior partner for that effort,” Netanyahu added. “…I believe this is a marriage made in heaven.”
Besides, with 7 US B-2s on Diego Garcia, maybe POTUS Trump just wants to personally tell Netanyahu the US has his back if Israel wish to teach IRAN a real hard lesson. Tariffs might not even be discussed.
POTUS Trump and the US are in the catbird seat and Americans need to realize just how formidable their country, with his leadership, is right now!!
I neither know or care if Netanyahu is a globolist. I simply want all nations to stand on their own feet and pay their own way.
I have seen you go farther though accusing Israel of war crimes. I don’t nesecarly disagree with you on aid. But I oppose ALL foriegn aid.
Tariffs might not even be discussed. The Pentagon moved 6 B-2 stealth bombers to the Indian Ocean island of Diego Garcia in massive show of force to Houthis and Iran. Maybe Trump just wants to personally tell Netanyahu the US has his back if Israel wishes to teach IRAN a real hard lesson.
Israel gonna attack Iran?
Mmmmmm, yummy..... an-oth-er extremely astute, well-thought out, political strategy:
<><>US taxpayers supply all of Israel’s economic financing and tranches of armaments;
<><>we get to be involved in all their wars
<><>in return we get all their enemies and assorted problems,
<><>future American generations get to inherit Israel’s enemies and their debts as well,
<><>while Israel gets to be a world leader.....unencumbered.
So brilliant.....could even catch on worldwide.
The Mideast guys haven’t been especially kind to the US or its presidents. The Washington foreign policy establishment has an ingrained belief in its own brilliance and a willingness to succumb to hubris about the extent of its power and influence. The Middle East has a tried and true formula to get foreign aid tax dollars.....uttering the word “peace” at regular intervals.
“Peace” in the Middle East has been a pipe dream for about a thousand years........there’s a
huge price tag on “peace,” with the US taxpayer gamely trying to meet the latest “peace price.”
Netanyahu to Trump: “Can you top this?”
<><>Biden blanketed Israel w/ $17.9 billion peace-keeping tax dollars in the 2024 election year alone, bragging, “Nobody has done more for Israeli peace than I have.”
<><>Rubio just gave Israel $4 billion tax dollars, over and above Israel’s annual US billions.
Besides peace-making weaponry, Israel also receives peace-keeping economic and humanitarian US tax dollars in USAID, which supports broad peaceful economic development and socio-political stability and can include peaceable non-military US support related to the country’s pressing peace needs.
Nice.
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