Trump Says He and Netanyahu Remain on Good Terms

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Trump Says He and Netanyahu Remain on Good Terms

Former President Donald J. Trump, who for months has urged ******* to end the war in the Gaza Strip as quickly as possible, said that he and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of ******* remained on good terms after the two met on Friday, and that he would be a stronger ally of ******* than Vice President Kamala Harris.

Mr. Netanyahu and Mr. Trump, who met in Palm Beach, Fla., were close allies during Mr. Trump’s presidency, but their ties became strained after the 2020 election. Asked by a reporter after their meeting if the two would have to rebuild their ties if he won in November, Mr. Trump said, “We don’t have to; we’ve had a good relationship.”

The former president and *********** nominee greeted the ******** leader warmly at his Mar-a-Lago estate and called his presumptive opponent, Ms. Harris, “********” and not “very nice” to *******. Even so, Mr. Netanyahu faces growing international criticism and pressure over *******’s war effort, and his trip to shore up support fought against strong headwinds.

Mr. Trump, in a Fox News interview on Thursday, said of the war in Gaza: “It can’t continue to go on like this. It’s too long. It’s too much.” Ms. Harris and President Biden met with Mr. Netanyahu on Thursday, and pressed, as they have for months, for a cease-***** that would provide for the release of hostages held by ******.

Ms. Harris said after her meeting that she had voiced to the prime minister her “unwavering commitment” to *******’s security and “my serious concern about the scale of human suffering in Gaza, including the ****** of far too many innocent civilians.”

And on Friday, the leaders of Australia, Canada and New Zealand called for an urgent cease-*****, saying that “the situation in Gaza is catastrophic.”

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Prime Ministers Anthony Albanese of Australia, Justin Trudeau of Canada and Christopher Luxon of New Zealand said: “The human suffering is unacceptable. It cannot continue.”

“We fully stand behind the comprehensive cease-***** deal, outlined by President Biden and endorsed by the U.N. Security Council,” the statement said. “We call on parties to the conflict to agree to the deal. Any delay will only see more lives lost.”

*******’s allies, including the ******* States, have stated repeatedly that ******* has a right to defend itself and to retaliate for the ******-led ******** on Oct. 7, while growing increasingly critical of the devastation and casualties created by the ******** response. Almost 40,000 people in Gaza have been ******* and 90,000 others wounded, according to health authorities there.

On Friday, Mr. Netanyahu did not directly criticize Ms. Harris, but said a cease-***** would be possible only if ****** understood “that there’s no daylight between ******* and the ******* States that expedites the deal” and that he hoped Ms. Harris’s “comments don’t change that.”

Mr. Trump, who last met with Mr. Netanyahu when Mr. Trump was president, in 2020, insists that he is the most devoted ally of *******, a position popular among Republicans, and he is eager to draw ******* Americans away from their longstanding lean toward the Democratic Party.

On Friday, repurposing an ******* line he has used for months against Mr. Biden, Mr. Trump again said that Jews who vote for Democrats are betraying their identities. “I actually don’t know how a person who’s ******* can vote for her, but that’s up to them,” he said of Ms. Harris.

As he often does on the campaign trail, Mr. Trump also insisted that global conflicts were bringing foreign powers closer to a potential world war that only he could prevent. “You are closer to a third world war right now than at any time since the Second World War,” he said. “You’ve never been so close.”

Mr. Netanyahu delivered a high-profile speech to Congress on Wednesday, calling critics of *******’s war effort either apologists for terrorists or dupes for the world’s worst actors. But his address was overshadowed by the stunning turn in the presidential race, with Mr. Biden dropping out and Ms. Harris quickly consolidating Democratic support.

********* public support for *******’s conduct of the war

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as the fighting has dragged on. Many Democratic lawmakers boycotted Mr. Netanyahu’s address, and Ms. Harris declined to play the vice president’s traditional role in such events of presiding in her capacity as president of the Senate, instead campaigning in the Midwest.

Unlike Ms. Harris, who put her concern about Gaza in moral terms and insisted, “I will not be silent,” Mr. Trump has cast his as a matter of shaping *******’s global image, warning that it was losing support. He has been critical of ******* for sharing footage of the destruction in Gaza, and told Fox News ******* was “getting decimated” by negative publicity.

“******* has to handle their public relations,” he said. “Their public relations are not good.” He added, “The world is not taking lightly to it.”

Though they were closely aligned during Mr. Trump’s term in the White House, he was irked by Mr. Netanyahu’s congratulating Mr. Biden on winning the 2020 presidential election, which Mr. Trump continues to falsely insist he won.

Days after the Oct. 7 ******** on *******, Mr. Trump criticized Mr. Netanyahu and ******** intelligence officials as being poorly prepared. Since then, he has retreated from those criticisms. And he thanked Mr. Netanyahu for mentioning him in his address to Congress on Wednesday.

U.S. officials have said negotiators are close to sealing a deal with ******, and Mr. Netanyahu has recently hinted at the possibility that one would come soon. But the two sides remain fundamentally divided over when and how the war should end.

According to officials familiar with internal conversations, *******’s defense agencies ***** that Mr. Netanyahu will ***** hopes for a cease-***** deal if he refuses to back down on some new demands, including his insistence that ******** forces screen Palestinians for weapons at checkpoints as they move between southern and northern Gaza.

Johnatan Reiss and Rawan Sheikh Ahmad contributed reporting.

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