Donald Trump & Benjamin Netanyahu may bury the hatchet to force peace

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48% : Netanyahu will meet with Trump at the White House on Tuesday and says the pair will discuss 'victory over Hamas,' countering Iran and expanding diplomatic relations with Arab countries.
48% : Above shows Trump shaking hands with Netanyahu at their meeting at Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida, in July 2024Al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, hands over two out of three Israeli hostages in Khan Younis in southern Gaza to the International Committee of the Red Cross on Saturday as part of the ongoing hostage swap deal in Khan Younis, Gaza on February 1, 2025Palestinians walk through the rubble of houses and buildings destroyed during the Israeli offensive, amid a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, in Jabalia refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip January 29, 2025Tuesday's meeting with Netanyahu will mark Trump's first with a foreign leader since returning to office.
48% : However, it is unlikely that the interaction will be much of a friendly fair, as the pair battle both political and personal differences.
47% : Trump, who brokered normalization agreements between Israel and four Arab countries in his first term, wants Israel to move on to phase two of the ceasefire deal.
45% : Trump is believed to be seeking a wider and potentially historic agreement in which Israel would forge ties with Saudi Arabia.
44% : Trump has been a staunch supporter of Israel, but has also pledged to end wars in the Middle East and took credit for helping to broker the ceasefire agreement.
40% : But Trump wants the ceasefire that took hold last month to become a long-term cessation of violence that could allegedly forge deals with Saudi Arabia and Iran.
33% : Some allege that Israel's decision to stop working with the United Nations relief organization - which Israel claims colluded with Hamas - could appeal to Trump.
32% : Trump, however, may ignore pleading from Israeli in pursuit of his Middle East peace agenda, with some suggesting he may view Netanyahu as 'expendable'.
23% : In addition to having differing agendas, Trump is said to hold the PM responsible for failing to see that Hamas' October 7 attack was coming, The Times reports.
13% : Experts warn that although Trump and Netanyahu's relationship is 'hardly cordial', they may be forced to work together to end the war after the Trump Administration indicated it was unwilling to accept delays by Netanyahu.'Trump and Netanyahu do not like one another and do not trust one another, but they really do need each other,' Aaron David Miller, a former US State Department who now works for the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, told The Times.
5% : Netanyahu also antagonized Trump after the 2020 election by congratulating Joe Biden on his presidential victory while Trump was still contesting the results.

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