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On Sunday President Donald Trump announced that in order to put an end to the Iran war, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu would have to agree to end it.
“I think it’s mutual … a little bit. We’ve been talking. I’ll make a decision at the right time, but everything’s going to be taken into account,” Trump said.
Netanyahu effectively visits President Trump every two months, much of these meetings go on behind closed doors.
“No other world leader has visited the United States in an official capacity over the past year more than Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu,” Al Jazeera said in February. “And the Israeli prime minister is set to break his own record when he embarks on yet another trip to the U.S. this week – his sixth since President Donald Trump returned to the White House early in 2025.”
Note that while Trump did say Sunday that he will make the final decision on ending the Iran war, that decision is “mutual … a little bit.”
Controversy has swirled over the Israeli leader’s influence over the U.S. government.
On Wednesday Trump acknowledged the fact that America struck Iran to defend Israel, despite his Tuesday statement that the U.S. was in control.
“And I think if we didn’t do it first they would have done it to Israel,” Trump said, referring the U.S. military strikes against Iran.
Immediately after the first strikes against Iran on February 28 Alex Jones said Israel was the driving force behind the military operation.
On Tuesday Trump countered a statement by Secretary of State Marco Rubio about which country made the decision to attack Iran, the U.S. or Israel.
Trump was asked by a reporter on Tuesday “Did Israel force your hand to launch these strikes against Iran? Did Netanyahu pull the United States into this war?”
“No. I might have forced their hand,” the President said.
A day earlier Rubio had a different story behind the war – that Israel made the decision to attack Iran, and that the U.S. was dragged in after it.
“The President made the very wise decision—we knew that there was going to be an Israeli action, we knew that that would precipitate an attack against American forces, and we knew that if we didn’t preemptively go after them before they launched those attacks, we would suffer higher casualties,” Rubio said Monday.
