Trump and Netanyahu will meet, united after Iran attacks, but ending with Gaza’s War can be a higher obstacle

Tel Aviv, Israel – The Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, and President Trump could look for a return of the victory on Monday after his recent joint attacks on Iran, acclaimed by both as a non -mitigated success. But as they are for the third time this year at the White House, the triumphant external visit will be persecuted for Israel’s 21 -month war against Hamas in Gaza And he questions how hard Mr. Trump will press for the end of the conflict.

Trump has made it clear that after the 12 -day war between Israel and Iran, he would like to see that Gaza’s conflict ends soon, ideally with a high fire agreement reached this week. The meeting between Mr. Trump and Netanyahu could give a new urgency to a US. High fire proposal discussed by Israel and Hamasbut it will lead to an agreement that ends the war is not clear.

“The optics will be very positive,” said Michael Oren, former Israeli ambassador to Washington. “But behind the return of the victory will be some very serious questions.”

Before leaving for Washington on Sunday, Netanyahu praised cooperation with the United States for bringing a “great victory over our shared enemy.” He hit a positive note on a high Gaza’s fire, saying that he was working “to achieve the agreement under discussion, on the terms we agreed.”

“I think that the discussion with President Trump can certainly help advance that result, which we all expect,” said Netanyahu.

Israel and Hamas seem to be advancing towards a new high fire agreement that would bring a 60 -day break in the fighting, would send help to Gaza and free at least some of the remaining 50 hostages in the territory, 20 of which Netanyahu says they are still alive.

But a perennial conflict point is whether the fire will end the war completely. Hamas has said that he is willing to free all hostages in exchange for an end of the war and a complete Israeli withdrawal from Gaza. Netanyahu has said that war will only end when Hamas is defeated or surrenders militarily, disarms and enters exile, something that the remaining leaders of the terrorist group have refused to do.

Trump’s search to be known as a peacemaker

Trump has made it clear that he wants to be known as a peacemaker. He has repeatedly promoted the recent peace agreements that his administration helped to facilitate, between India and Pakistan, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda, and Israel and Iran, and for years he has little hidden the fact that a Nobel Peace Prize greedy.

He has been pressing Israel and Hamas to conclude their own conflict, which killed tens of thousands of Palestinians, devastated Gaza, deepened the international isolation of Israel and made any resolution to the broader conflict between Israel and the most distant Palestinians than ever.

But the precise details of the high fire agreement proposed, and if it can lead to an end of the war, they are still in flow. In the days before Netanyahu’s visit, Trump seemed less safe than the possibilities of an imminent advance.

When asked on Friday, it was sure that a high fire agreement was joined, he told reporters: “I am very optimistic, but you know, look, change day by day.”

On Sunday night, it seemed to reduce their expectations, telling journalists that he thought that an agreement related to the remaining hostages would be reached next week.

Did Gaza’s peace depend on Trump’s and Netanyahu personal ties?

After Mr. Trump’s decision to get involved in the Israel War in Iran with strikes in Iranian nuclear sites, he and Netanyahu have looked and sounded more synchronized than ever. But that has not always been the case.

As recently as Netanyahu’s last visit to Washington in April, the tone was remarkably different.

Trump used photography with Netanyahu to announce that the US was entering negotiations with Iran for its nuclear agreement, seeming to catch the unveiled Israeli leader and at that time, braking the brakes of any Israeli military plan.

He also praised the Turkish leader Rece Tayyip Erdogan, a fierce critic of Israel, in front of Netanyahu, and the two did not make apparent advances in a commercial agreement in the apogee of the tariff expansion of Mr. Trump.

Trump, whose policies have been largely aligned with Israel’s own priorities, promised to be “very firm” with Netanyahu at the end of the war, without saying what that would imply. The pressure of Mr. Trump may have helped to convince Netanyahu in the past, with a high fire agreement before reaching the right when the president was assuming the position for his second mandate.

Netanyahu has to balance the demands of his American ally with the extreme right parties in his ruling coalition that have the key to their political survival and oppose ending the war.

But given the strong support of the United States in the Israel War against Iran, highlighted by joint air attacks in three key Iranian nuclear sites, Netanyahu can have difficulty saying no.

On Sunday night, Trump said that one of the issues he hoped to argue with Netanyahu “is probably a permanent agreement with Iran.”

Trump can also expect something to be canceled in exchange for his recent calls to the Netyahu corruption trial, a significant interference in the internal affairs of a sovereign state.

“Trump thinks Netanyahu owes him,” said Eytan Gilboa, an expert in US affairs. Uu. At the University of Bar-Ilaan, near Tel Aviv. “And if Trump thinks he needs to finish the war in Gaza, then that is what he will need to do.”

Trump’s vision for a half -east rebuilding depended on Gaza

But beyond Iran is Trump’s great vision for a new Middle East, where he expects additional countries to join the Abraham agreementsa series of agreements that normalize relations between the Arab countries and Israel were negotiated during Mr. Trump’s first mandate.

It is likely that Netanyahu and Mr. Trump discuss how to bring Syria to the Redile. The country, an enemy of Israel for a long time, has a new leadership after the fall of President Bashar Assad, and experts say that the conditions could be mature for some kind of non -beligerity agreement.

Last week, Mr. Trump signed an executive order Raising a series of US sanctions Against the Syrian government, raiding the way for the new leaders of the Nation, former Islamist militants who publicly embraced secularism after demolishing Assad, to further consolidate their government and join the international community.

But the ultimate goal of Mr. Trump is to include the regional power of Saudi Arabia.

The Saudi, whose influence could open the door so that other Arab or Muslim countries join together, have expressed interest in normalizing ties with Israel, but only if it is accompanied by serious steps to resolve Israel’s conflict with the Palestinians. To start, that seems to require action in Gaza.

“The most important thing (for Mr. Trump) is to end the war in Gaza,” Gilboa said. “That is the key to all regional peace in the Middle East.”

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