Washington – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu He will meet Thursday with the leaders of the Congress in Capitol Hill, days after a meeting with President Trump that caused a generalized shock with the advertisement of plans For the United States to “take over” of the Gaza Strip.
Trump’s comments during a joint press conference with Netanyahu, where he described a new vision for Gaza, saying that the United States would “possess it”, sent diplomat shock waves Around the world.
Netanyahu, who praised Mr. Trump for having unconventional ideas, met Thursday with the leader of the Senate John Thune and a bipartisan group of senators. Thune told journalists on Wednesday in response to Mr. Trump’s announcement that the president “wants to bring a more peaceful and safe medium, and is putting some ideas.”
Appearing with the group of senators before the meeting, Netanyahu was asked if US troops are needed in Gaza, to which he replied: “No.”
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Senator Richard Blumenthal, a Connecticut Democrat, told reporters after leaving the meeting that what Mr. Trump proposed “simply has no legs.”
“There is a general consensus that a forced evacuation of the Palestinians and the United States troops in the field are unpaved proposals as they are first articulated by President Trump and that they are indifferent, essentially,” said Blumenthal.
Thune reiterated his support for Israel at the beginning of the week, saying at the weekly press conference of the Senate Republican Party that “Israel is our closest ally in the Middle East”, while criticizing the Democrats for boycoting Netanyahu’s comments in the Capitol in the past, and blockade A measure to sanction the International Criminal Court on the decision to seek the arrests of senior Israeli officials, including Netanyahu, for alleged war crimes.
“Republicans are here and are ready when the Democrats decide that it is time to work in the interest of, in the defense of the largest ally of the United States in the Middle East, Israel. Republicans have been consistent in doing so during the last war with Hamas , Democrats I haven’t had, “said Thune. “We are ready to go to work and make sure that the interests of our allies worldwide are protected, and we hope at some point that the Democrats join us in that effort.”
The president of the House of Representatives, Mike Johnson, who will meet with Netanyahu at the Capitol later on Thursday, defended Mr. Trump’s proposal. Johnson said Wednesday that the announcement “was received by many by many, but joy for people around the world.”
“He is taking bold decisive measures to try to guarantee the peace of that region,” Johnson said at a press conference, added that “we have to be unequivocally” with Israel.
Netanyahu also met with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth in the Pentagon on Wednesday. The visit of the Israeli prime minister to Washington occurs in the middle of a high fragile fire between Israel and Hamas that was negotiated in the last days of the Biden administration after an Israeli assault of almost 16 months to Hamas caused by his terrorist attack against Israel on October 7, 2023..
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