Posted on 05/14/2025 7:39:57 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Summary
JERUSALEM, May 14 (Reuters) - Israel's right-wing government has maintained a diplomatic silence this week as U.S. President Donald Trump fired off a blizzard of announcements that have shaken Israeli assumptions about their country's standing with its most important ally.
Trump's decision to bypass Israel during his current visit to the Middle East had already been seen as a marker of the his administration's increased focus on lucrative business deals with wealthy Gulf countries, including Qatar, which Israeli officials have long accused of helping Hamas.
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Even before the trip began, Israel was on edge over U.S. talks with its arch-enemy Iran and over Trump's decision to stop bombing the Houthis in Yemen, regardless of the Iranian-backed group's determination to keep up its own missile strikes against Israel.
Israeli officials were then forced to stand by and watch as the United States negotiated to reach a deal with the Palestinian militant group Hamas to bring home Edan Alexander, the last surviving American hostage in Gaza.
Since then, they have had to listen as Trump declared an end to sanctions on Syria and called for a normalization of relations with the new government in Damascus, which Israel regards as a barely disguised jihadist regime.
Even as Trump spoke in Riyadh on Tuesday, claiming credit for the ceasefire agreement with the Houthis, Israeli media noted that warning sirens were sounding in areas across Israel including Jerusalem and Tel Aviv as a missile from Yemen headed towards them.
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Netanyahu was, if memory serves, the very first foreign leader to congratulate Joe Biden for “winning” the 2024 election.
Memories of that may linger.
Trump, the guy that moved our embassy to Jerusalem hasn’t
abandoned Israel. Much is said about his cozying up to
Syria, but no one mentions that he is urging the new
leadership there to sign onto the Abraham Accords.
This Leftist BS needs to become illegal. I’m tired of
the Left pumping out Pravda Bilge as if it was the model
for free societies everywhere.
The entire corporate fake media has been spewing lies ordered by the DNC for at least a week now that the there has been some kind of “split” between Trump and Netanyahu .... nothing could be further from the truth:
The United States is a major supplier of arms to Israel, and has been for decades.
Key Points:
Long-standing relationship: The US has a long history of providing military aid to Israel, and this has been a cornerstone of US foreign policy in the Middle East.
Maintaining Israel’s Qualitative Military Edge (QME): A core principle behind US military aid to Israel is to ensure Israel maintains a qualitative military edge over its neighbors.
Major arms sales:
The US has approved and delivered billions of dollars worth of weapons to Israel in recent years.
Types of arms supplied:
The US provides a wide array of military equipment to Israel, including fighter jets, precision-guided munitions, missile defense systems, and other advanced weaponry.
Recent examples:
In March 2025, the US fast-tracked a $3 billion arms sale to Israel, including bombs and armored bulldozers.
In April 2025, the US sent Israel 20,000 assault rifles that had been delayed by the previous administration.
In August 2024, the US approved a major arms sale to Israel worth more than $20 billion, including F-15 fighter jets and other military equipment.
Continued support:
Despite some scrutiny and debate, the US has largely continued its policy of providing significant military aid and arms sales to Israel.
Israel’s dependence on US arms: Israel relies heavily on US weapons and military aid, although it also has its own domestic defense industry and exports some arms.
In summary, the US is a major arms supplier to Israel, and this relationship is a key aspect of the broader US-Israel strategic alliance.
Ridiculous article.
POTUS 47 is playing 4-D chess and the rest of the world is playing checkers!
The Art of The Deal!
Yes. It’s weaponized irrationality.
Consider another NYT article about how Trumps efforts to reduce influx of fentanyl and other drugs is going to hurt drug addicts.
They’re insane. Just stark raving nuts.
No, they are repreobate, given over to satan
Exactly
So he didn’t stop by Israel this time. He draws in the
folks who have loathed Israel for 75 years, and asks
them to join peace deals.
The Left is apoplectic over this.
Reuters so it is almost certainly BS.
I’m thinking accept the plane on behalf of America, let NSA study and debug it while the ink (blood?) dries on the new treaties/contracts that force the terrorism supporters into this 21st Century then present cleaned up bling jet to Israel as a token toward pursuing mutual goals for their region.
Thanks for posting the absurd Reuters “newsscoop” created as a composed narrative based on NO sources about the communication between Bibi and DJT. Not too clever of Reuters.
These “propaganda generators” (like NYSlimes and AP as well) have zero knowledge of either a lack of coordination or intricately linked cooperation and gameplan, dating back to Bibi’s visit in DC and Mar-a-lago. Gaza remains in nowhereville, and these media morons are spinning Trump wants Gaza over the same way he’s expressed the Ukraine situation. Nothing could be further from the truth, as Trump wants it over as rapidly as Hamas can be wiped out. That whopper was spun by saying “Qatar told Hamas to release Edan so Trump would have a victory to spout over, the release of the last Hamas American hostage, somehow appeasing American Jewish faithful with a token Qatar arranged— what bilge.
They “might” get a clue (but are too stupid or deliberately trying to sow dissension domestically in US and in Israel) by paying attention to the actual events of today- being DJT very direct with the new assassin of Syria— to acknowledge Israel as a single state AND... to join on with House of Saud, Emirates and all other participants and other agreed parties of the Abraham Accords (includes Israel, obviously with Bibi’ govt’s OK) to isolate and single out IRAN as the exporter of terrorism within Sunni Islam and directed at Israel.
Reuters purposely paying no attention to these “little” details. Ignoring also even more the trade agreements being made with UK, India and Chi-Coms(!) because that would elevate the Trump admins 100+ days of massive tectonic plate shift in world global economics, while also ignoring the recreation of the Abraham Accords. No one could be so deliberately daft to ignore all this and put out this idiotic narrative.
The Russians are out played in all this just as you said - still backing Iran because China has to have illegal sanctioned Iranian oil to survive. Another “small” detail in the Saudi/Iran friction for what, the last 30 years or more?
Wonder if anyone noted the rather small military unit parades of Victory Day— the unit commanders and the marching soldiers/sailors of Russia, really quite old (old men leading the marching looked just about ready to collapses) as Ukraine has killed off a large number younger Russian combatants- however they were gotten into the ranks.
Great post and observations, E. Pluribus Unum.
Until there is a “reformation” within Islam, and ALL Moslems reject the notion that Islam’s purpose is to conquer the world, ALL of us are at extreme risk!
Great sumation.
Keep in mind that Iran having nukes to hurl where they want— could very well target the protector of Mecca- Saudi Arabia.
Mutual respect of this bin Salman House of Saud for the State of Israel is coupled with utter disdain for the “Palestinians”. Nobody wants them- not even Jordan.
The Sauds et al want Iran contained, and reduced in any further exploration of the Caliphate- the same one Erdogan in Turkey thinks he will be running with the Iranian’s help. Damned stupid notion for a supposed NATO country to entertain.
These are the chess pieces. The game is quite deadly with loonies like the Iranians, Syria, and Turkey in the mix.
This is just the birdbrain media jumping on the same theme as https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4317030/posts.
Bibi does not need a visit from Trump to know where he stands and where Israel stands.
Trump is just backing off full-throated support for Israel for the moment in an effort to make the Arab countries he’s courting feel better about the deal he is edging them into signing with Israel. And to give a smidgen of plausible deniability in case Israel attacks Irans’ nuclear facilities, which could happen at any minute.
Unfotantly, Arabs are not capable of Democracy, and such an attempt leads to insane islamists taking over. We learned that the hard way.
Reuters, Bull#*&tico, The Guardian, The New York Slimes, The Washington Compost, MSLSD, etc. Whatever they “report” the opposite is usually the case.
Yep, quite true. Incapable of a Republic such as the Constitutional USA, no doubt. Definitely incapable of any fantasy idea of a “democracy”, as these have always devolved into dictatorship and chaos.
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