Posted on 04/09/2026 2:44:02 PM PDT by MeanWestTexan
Internal reports reveal that President Trump personally called Prime Minister Netanyahu to request a reduction in strikes on Lebanon to protect the success of upcoming peace talks with Iran.
While the public narrative has focused on military dominance, a different story has been unfolding behind the scenes in Washington and Jerusalem. President Donald Trump reportedly reached out to Prime Minister Netanyahu in a direct phone call, asking him to "calm down" the strikes in Lebanon. This request was driven by a growing realization within the White House that the continued destruction of Beirut could jeopardize the high stakes peace negotiations with Iran scheduled for Saturday in Islamabad. Although the Trump administration maintains that Lebanon is not formally part of the Iran ceasefire, officials became concerned that the humanitarian and political costs of the war were becoming a liability for the President’s regional strategy.
The Diplomatic Pivot
Initially, the Trump administration gave Israel a relatively free hand in the north, with Vice President J.D. Vance and others clarifying that Hezbollah was not covered by the Iran truce. However, as the IDF continued to level the Dahiyeh district and the death toll rose, the political calculus changed. Trump’s inner circle feared that the images of destruction would not only derail the Islamabad summit but also cause domestic political damage within the United States. In response to the President’s direct pressure, Netanyahu’s tone shifted almost instantly, leading to the dramatic announcement of a new diplomatic track with the Lebanese government.
Israel has reportedly agreed to be a "helping partner" in Trump's broader diplomatic efforts, recognizing that the U.S. wants a bridge to peace that prevents the Iranian talks from being sabotaged by the Lebanon front. Vice President Vance hinted at this shift, suggesting that the Israelis offered to exercise some restraint to ensure the U.S. negotiations succeed. This does not mean a total cessation of hostilities, but rather a tactical adjustment to align with Washington's goals. As a result, the upcoming talks in Washington between Ambassador Yehiel Leiter and Lebanese representatives will be watched closely as a test of whether this American pressured restraint can lead to a breakthrough without sacrificing Israel's security goals.
There's clearly a junior partner in the Israeli-USA relationship, and that junior partner is Israel.
Netanyahu is also back in court on Sunday:
Netanyahu’s criminal trial to resume Sunday after wartime court freeze
https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/benjamin-netanyahu/article-892469
I have been a longtime Trump loyalist, but given the two week cease fire and now this, he is really beginning to piss me off. The only guy making sense is General Kaine.
Role reversal:
“Former Defense Secretary Robert Gates once said that “every president I worked for, at some point in his presidency, would get so pissed off at the Israelis that he couldn’t speak. It didn’t matter whether it was Jimmy Carter or Gerry Ford or Ronald Reagan or George Bush. Something would happen and they would … rant and rave around the Oval Office.””
TACO Thursday!
Eh, he gave peace a chance.
It didn’t work.
Bombs away.
Yeah, that’s about as real as the fake criminal stuff you guys put Trump through in NYC.
Quite the tribute Gates paid to a nation that refused suicidal territorial concessions. The audacity to say: Our children’s lives come first. How dare Israel destroy Syrian and Iraqi nuclear sites and refuse to subordinate Jewish survival to Arab petro-power and American diplomatic convenience
GFYS
-Internal reports reveal-
Looks like another made-up story with no real source.
“ Looks like another made-up story”
No source other than Trump’s NBC interview where he said he said this (“ spoke with Bibi and he’s going to low-key it. I just think we have to be sort of a little more low-key”) and Steve Witcoff (sp?) confirming it, you mean.
You’re a clown, bozo24
each will fo what they need to fo to survive. were Zi israel....keep bombing the terrorists.
the only good terrorist is a dead one already.
As far as I can remember the only time that happened during Reagan's terms it was due to Jimmy Carter! His adminstration had not informed the incoming adminstration about the ongoing discussions about the Iraqi Osirak atomic reactor. Begin's government had warned Carter that if the US did not help to stop the French from installing the reactor the Israelis would attack it and take it out by military means.
This little piece of information the Carter administration did not think was necessary to inform the new Reagan adminstration about. Therefore the US was taken aback when the IAF suddenly attacked and demolished the Osirak reactor.
Ye ol good cop, bad cop routine. N gets gets to play punching bag n second banana. Go ask Tel Aviv Steve.
Well, there was at least one other, recalled courtesy of Ann Coulter
Reagan shows why you need a man of high moral character in the White House.
NYT, Aug 13, 1982, REAGAN DEMANDS END TO ATTACKS IN A BLUNT TELEPHONE CALL TO BEGIN
WASHINGTON, Aug. 12 - President Reagan expressed ‘’outrage’’ to Prime Minister Menachem Begin today over Israel’s latest bombing raids in west Beirut, saying the attacks had resulted in ‘’needless destruction and bloodshed.’’..
Larry Speakes, the deputy White House press secretary, said Mr. Reagan had been ‘’shocked’’ by the Israeli attacks ...
‘’The President expressed his outrage over this latest round of massive military action,’’ ...
Mr. Speakes, asked whether Mr. Reagan had shouted at the Prime Minister, declined to comment.
American officials - including, apparently, Mr. Reagan - were stunned by not only the scale of the Israeli air attacks but also the possibility that Mr. Habib’s peace proposals could fall apart because of them.
Asked if Mr. Reagan had threatened to suspend American arms aid or take other retaliation, Mr. Speakes replied, ‘’I won’t discuss that.’’
https://x.com/AnnCoulter/status/2042391856898597239
I think two things can be true at the same time. The US administration does not want the Iranians to be able to blame a halt in the cease fire* due to heavy Israeli bombings in Lebanon. But at the same time - as we have been discussing on another thread - it appears that Israel helped to stop a Hezbollah coup directed at the Lebanese president. Hezbollah is now very weakened and the Lebanese President can sit down talks with the Israelis. Something Hezbollah in its days of strength never would have allowed.
*Of course the Iranians has never really adhered to the cease fire. Their Gulf neighbours are not happy!
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