Peloni: The final statement in this report by Noem seems to highlight Trump’s need to restrain Bibi as he continues to push forward on his efforts of negotiating with the duplicitous Mullahs, while failing to appreciate that there is no good outcome to be had which keeps the Mullahs in power. Good for Bibi for providing some upstream pressure on what will be Trump’s greatest failure should he succeed in his attempts at a ‘better deal’.
Homeland Security Secretary Noem says she and Netanyahu had ‘candid and direct’ conversation
President Trump at the Israel Museum. Jerusalem May 23, 2017 (Photo by U.S. Embassy Tel Aviv – President Trump at the Israel Museum. Jerusalem May 23, 2017. Jerusalem May 23, 2017, CC BY 2.0)
The most recent phone call between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and U.S. President Donald Trump involved a heated exchange and exposed differences between the two leaders on how best to deal with the Iranian threat according to a report in Israel’s Channel 12 news.
In spite of this, after the conversation between the two, Prime Minister Netanyahu’s office released a statement saying, “The Prime Minister and President Trump agreed on the need to ensure that Iran will not obtain nuclear weapons.”
Channel 12 claims that the conversation was much more charged with Trump and Netanyahu at odds over the likely success of a political agreement to end the Iranian nuclear threat. It reported that Trump told Netanyahu that he prefers to advance a diplomatic solution with Iran and that he believes in his ability to bring about a good agreement that also meets Israel’s security needs.
Following the publication of the Channel 12 report, the Prime Minister’s Office denied that the two leaders held “a tense conversation.”
“There was no tense conversation and the report was false regarding the content of it,” the statement said.
Channel 12’s report came shortly after U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem told Fox News in an interview, that “President Trump specifically sent me here to speak with the prime minister about how those negotiations are going and how important it is that we stay united and let this process play out.”
Noem described her conversation with Netanyahu as “a very candid conversation.”
“I’ve known the prime minister for many years, and had many good conversations with him,” Noem told the American news channel, “but this was one directly from the president, and I think the prime minister greatly appreciated it.”
Noem refused to relate any specifics about the conversation, saying, “I’m not going to share what the president’s personal message was to the prime minister, but the prime minister had a conversation afterwards with us that they don’t remember a bilateral meeting that was quite that candid and direct about how we really felt about the importance of Israel, our support for Israel, but that this negotiation was critically important too.”
“We’re on a short time frame here as well,” the secretary stated. “We aren’t talking weeks and months and years before President Trump will make a decision with Iran. They’ve been given a very short timeframe, a matter of days. I asked the prime minister to work with President Trump to make sure we’re making wise decisions together.”
Pressed further about the conversation and whether Israel is “still having intentions to attack Iran,” Noem again demurred, saying, “We discussed Iran and we discussed where Israel’s position was and I also delivered the message on where the president was.”
She reiterated that “the president will never accept a nuclear-capable Iran. He will never accept them having nuclear weapons and building the capacity to that.”
She also said that the Israel intelligence information is shared with the United States and that the Trump administration is using that intel, along with American intelligence for nuclear talks.
“So I think the message to the American people is we have a president that wants peace but also will not tolerate Iran capability in the future,” Noem stated. “They will not be able to get a nuclear weapon, and this president will not allow it. But he also wanted this prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, to be on the same page with him.”
Noem continued, saying, “We talked about the track record with Iran, you can’t trust them. We’ve got 46 years of proof that you can’t trust Iran.”
She said that Netanyahu was right for distrusting Iran, but stated that “he also needs America, and he knows he needs America, and he needs our president to be his ally and to work together. We are stronger when we are united.”
No sources!!!! As usual.
Fake news!
The relationship btw the US and IL is a two-way street! Not one-way.
Is there any difference between this administration and Biden in the Middle East? None which I can see. Like Blinken would be periodically sent to Israel to browbeat Bibi into accepting a ceasefire deal, the Trump administration sends its lackeys like Noam to browbeat Bibi about backing off of Iran. There she was lighting candles for the young couple murdered at the DC Jewish Museum. Putting on a friendly public face of solidarity with Israel while trying to bully Bibi behind the scenes. This is exactly how the Biden administration conducted itself. If Rubio is at all true to his beliefs, he won’t last long in this administration. See Mike Waltz. What Trump is doing isn’t bringing about peace, he is ushering in a nuclear holocaust. As for the phony isolationists, who aren’t actually isolationists at all, they are interventionists in the worst way possible, preventing Israel from stopping Iran getting nuclear weapons and further rewarding terrorist supporting regimes like Qatar. This does not amount to peace. Meanwhile those of us who believe Iran must be prevented from getting nukes even if it takes military force are being called “warmongers” by the so-called “non-interventionists”. You can’t be any more of a warmonger than being willing to risk the islamo-nazi regime in Tehran to have nuclear weapons. These are the people who will get us into a war, the worst kind of war possible, nuclear war.