“I have just finished an excellent meeting with President Trump,” Netanyahu said.
“When I say excellent, it’s not just lip service. It was a conversation of full partnership, of mutual support, with an understanding of the shared goal to ensure that Iran will not have nuclear weapons, and also other goals.”
He later elaborated on these comments, telling Fox News host Sean Hannity his alliance with Trump was “like a wall of granite”.
Dismissing claims of a rift in US-Israel ties, he said: “I always hate to disappoint our would-be critics who are trying to find cracks in our alliance,” adding: “What they find like today is a wall of granite.”
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt described the meeting between Trump and Netanyahu as “positive and productive.”
Getting down to business in the Oval Office (X/Prime Minister of Israel)[Missing Credit]
A senior source who accompanied Netanyahu to the White House said that Iran was the focus of discussion, JNS reported.
“The prime minister and president held an excellent and comprehensive discussion on the key issues of the day, first and foremost Iran,” the source said. “The leaders reaffirmed their ironclad commitment to ensuring that Iran never has nuclear weapons.”
The meeting did not include questions from the press, which have been a common feature of the past seven meetings between the two leaders in Trump’s second term.
Benjamin Netanyahu shakes hands with Secretary of State Marco Rubio (X/Prime Minister of Israel)[Missing Credit]
Photos released by the Israeli Prime Minister’s Office show US vice president JD Vance, secretary of state Marco Rubio, secretary of the treasury Scott Bessent, secretary of defence Pete Hegseth and Steve Witkoff, one of the lead negotiators with the Iranians, in the Oval Office with Trump and Netanyahu, as well as Israeli ambassador to the United States Yechiel Leiter and Caroline Glick, Netanyahu’s international affairs adviser.
