The new meeting between Trump and Netanyahu will decide today the future of the truce with Hamas

In this fifth meeting of this year, Netanyahu could face difficulties in obtaining the support of the US presidentgiven the deterioration of their relationship, says the newspaper The Washington Post.

Apparently, the Netanyahu’s tough stances and Trump’s are going in different directions on various topics of interest and that has created tensions in the relationship, according to people familiar with the thinking of the two leaders and political observers, the newspaper highlights this Sunday.

“This is an emergency summit (Monday’s),” Dan Diker, president of the Jerusalem Center for Foreign Affairs and Security think tank, told the newspaper.

“The context is the need to clarify thingssince there have been tensions between both parties. “They have different timeframes to reach the same destination: a Middle East liberated from the Iranian regime and its terrorist allies, particularly Hamas,” he said.

The Washington Post He also highlights that for the Israeli prime minister, the meeting on Monday with Trump – who today meets with the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky, in his goal of achieving peace in the conflict with Russia – is an opportunity to convince him to adopt a firmer stance on Gaza and demand the disarmament of Hamas before Israeli troops withdraw further, as part of the second phase of the peace plan, according to Israeli sources.

Among the discrepancies, the newspaper also mentions that on the issue of Iran, Netanyahu is seeking approval for another attack against the Islamic Republic’s ballistic missile program, possibly as part of a joint operation with the United States, despite the fact that Trump strongly demanded an end to the 12-day war between Israel and Iran in June and declared that the Iranian nuclear program had been “totally destroyed” by American bombers.

Also, mentions Israel’s actions in Syria and Lebanon, contrary to the interests of the United States.

According to Israeli officials citing The Washington Postthe prime minister wants to discuss with Trump what Israel sees as dangerous expansion of Iran’s ballistic missile capabilities and the possibility of new joint attacks between Israel and the United States, at a time when the administration of the American president makes a new attempt to approach negotiations with Tehran.

But, among the conflictive issues, the one that occupies the interest of both is that of Gazaboth for its security implications and for its political importance and where the peace plan promoted by Washington has stalled after its first phase.

It is expected that the Republican will demand that he advance in the ceasefire that the US helped materialize last October, thanks to which Israel stopped massively bombing Gaza – although it maintains sporadic attacks that have killed more than 400 Palestinians – and withdrew its troops to the so-called yellow line, a new border within the Palestinian Strip.