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Israeli media have dealt with the surprises of US President Donald Trump to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu since his return to the White House in late January.
According to the Israeli media, Trump was so tired of Netanyahu’s behavior that he had concluded an agreement with the “Ansar Allah” group (the Houthis) on the ships of the Red Sea, and left Israel alone in the face of their missiles.
Trump announced last Tuesday that he decided to stop strikes on Yemen in exchange for the Houthis’ commitment to stop targeting ships, which the group considered “victory”, stressing that the agreement with Washington “does not include an exclusion of Israel from operations.”
The political analyst at the 13th Israeli channel, Rafif Druker, said that Trump reached an agreement with the Houthis “from behind our backs, which led to our only left to facing the Houthi missiles,” asking: “When did an American president set his knife deep into the back of Israel?”
According to Drucker, Trump did not bother to inform Netanyahu before, noting that Ukraine is receiving “better treatment than we receive from the largest friend of the people of Israel in the White House.”
The Israeli Army Radio had quoted close associates of Trump who informed the Israeli Minister of Strategic Affairs, Ron Dermer, that the American president decided to cut contact with Netanyahu, who is manipulating him, and that the most hated by Trump is to appear as a person being tampered with.
The radio quoted an Israeli official as saying that Dermer’s conversation with senior Republican officials, with his usual arrogance, did not help.
In turn, Oren Abman, a former military division leader, said that Tel Aviv sees the ability of the American deterrence to fade in Gaza as well, and not only towards the Yemenis.
In his talk to the 12th Israeli Channel, Abman considered talking about a ground operation in Yemen, a “joke” that falls in the context of science fiction.
As for the military affairs correspondent on the army radio, Amir Bar-Shalom, he expressed his concern about Washington’s conclusion on its own with the Houthis, and its repercussions on the path of negotiations between the United States and Iran.
Kobe Maroum, an expert in national security, pointed out that Israel insisted on continuing what it called “diving in the Gazzi mud” with an attack from 5 military teams and tens of thousands of soldiers without a clear and mechanical goal for the end of the war.
Maroum expressed his conviction that this insistence and military pressure “will not lead to the release of detainees in Gaza,” noting that Israel has a difficult strategic reality.
He concluded the absence of what he called the “friendly coordination” between Israel and the United States regarding the Houthi and Iran files.
