No meeting is currently scheduled between Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu. One of the reasons would be the deep irritation of the American president over the Israeli prime minister’s criticism regarding the possibility that Trump might decide to sell F-35s to Turkey. Axios reports this citing some sources, according to which the interview given by Netanyahu to Fox enraged the president, convinced that “Bibi has no right” to influence Trump’s decision.
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Further complicating the already strained relations for weeks was the warning from Israeli intelligence about a possible new Iranian plot to kill Trump. The alert forced the president to abandon the new Air Force One and fly on the old one. Several American sources described the alarm as not supported by evidence. “It was more an aspiration than an operational plan,” the sources told Axios. Turkish security services also investigated the threat, determining that there was no specific plot to kill Trump in Ankara, where he was for the NATO summit.
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Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister’s office announced, will instead travel to the United States at the end of the month, because the funeral of Senator Lindsey Graham has been postponed to that date. Graham, a longtime supporter of Israel in the United States Senate and a friend of Netanyahu, suddenly passed away at the age of 71 in recent days. Netanyahu was supposed to meet U.S. President Donald Trump during his visit, in the context of rising tensions between the United States and Iran and negotiations with Lebanon, supported by the United States.
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