(From Washington, United States) Benjamin Netanyahu will arrive in Washington today to hold a complex meeting tomorrow with Donald Trump aimed at ending their differences regarding the negotiations with Iran and the integration of the Peace Board.
It will be a difficult and open-ended conclave.
The president of the United States is negotiating an agreement with Iran that would involve containing its nuclear project and shortening the range of its ballistic missiles.
Instead, the Israeli premier will tell Trump that Iran cannot be trusted and that the White House should launch a lightning strike to end Tehran’s nuclear and war capabilities.
Steve Witkoff – US special envoy to the Middle East – and Jared Kushner – Trump’s son-in-law – met with Netanyahu last week in Jerusalem, and everything came to a dead end.
When the meeting concluded, the Israeli government’s press office explained Netanyahu’s position to Trump’s envoys: “Iran has shown time and again that its promises cannot be trusted,” the official statement said.
Hours later, Netanyahu announced that he was traveling to DC for a meeting with Trump, given the failure of negotiations with Witkoff and Kushner.
The Israeli premier waged a war against Iran to destroy its nuclear project, which was supported by the United States when Tehran was already under enemy siege.On that occasion, Trump announced that Iran’s atomic capacity had been decimated.
Months later, the Ayatollah regime began a process of rebuilding its nuclear facilities, and the United States proposed diplomatic negotiations instead of unleashing a new armed conflict in the Middle East.
Netanyahu rejected the White House strategy, and threatened to launch a unilateral attack against Tehran if the United States did not cancel negotiations with Iran.
Tomorrow’s meeting in the Oval Office has as its main political objective to find a point of contact between Trump’s diplomatic initiative and Netanyahu’s war proposal.
The different positions displayed by Trump and Netanyahu regarding an eventual agreement with Iran deepen with the creation and integration of the so-called Peace Board.
The Republican leader included Turkey and Qatar to the Peace Board, two regional enemies of Israel.In this context, Netanyahu has no intention of joining the multilateral forum created by Trump, despite the constant pressure he receives from the White House.
When the Peace Board’s charter was signed, Israel did not send any representatives to the official ceremony in Davos.And he also does not plan to participate in the first formal session of the Board, which Trump called for next week in DC.
The Peace Board was created by a decision of the UN Security Council, and its main objective is to execute a roadmap to achieve the reconstruction of Gaza.
It would be an atypical situation if Israel, after suffering Hamas attacks from Gaza, does not participate in its reconstruction to avoid future attacks by the Palestinian terrorist organization.
Until last night, Netanyahu maintained his political position of ignoring the existence of the Peace Board.
In this context, the diplomatic tug-of-war between DC and Jerusalem was aggravated last Sunday by Israel’s unilateral position of advancing on the West Bank, which is Palestinian territory.
Netanyahu put the Oslo Accords and the United States’ regional agenda in check to lead a plan that could lead to the annexation of the West Bank.
Türkiye, Qatar, Jordan, the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia have all taken a stand against Israel, demanding that Netanyahu back down from his political ambitions in the West Bank.
The Israeli premier has no intention of backing down and his geopolitical movement in the West Bank will also be discussed in the meeting with Trump, who has not yet set a public position.
The president of the United States and Netanyahu have known each other since the last century and have had a deep personal relationship.Tomorrow, in the White House, that thirty-year bond will be put to the test.
