The Prime Minister presented Trump with a picture of Ariel BIbas, who was kidnapped to Gaza with his parents and baby brother Kfir, holding a picture he had drawn in kindergarten.
Netanyahu told Trump that Ariel’s grandfather asked that he give Trump the picture, which he had also given to President Joe Biden during their meeting.
Trump said he has always had a good relationship with Netanyahu, despite recent tensions between them in the wake of Trump’s 2020 election loss.
“My relationship with Netanyahu was never bad,” the former President stated.
He also criticized Vice President Kamala Harris’ remarks on Israel at her press statement on Thursday, after her meeting with Netanyahu, and called them “disrespectful”.
“I think her remarks were disrespectful. They weren’t very nice pertaining to Israel. I actually don’t know how a person who’s Jewish can vote for her. But that’s up to them. But she was certainly disrespectful to Israel, in my opinion,” said Trump.
“We are closer to a Third World War right now then anytime since the Second World War, we’ve never been so close because we have incompetent people running our country,” the former President stated.
Netanyahu was asked if a hostage release deal is closer, and replied, “I hope so, only time will tell. We are working on it.”
He added that the progress in the talks on a deal is a result of Israel's military pressure on Hamas.
Netanyahu confirmed that he is sending a team to Rome at the beginning of the week for talks on the hostage deal. READ MORE