Senior officials in Israel: Vance's people are trying to thwart a meeting between Trump and Netanyahu
Netanyahu's efforts to meet with Trump are encountering containment attempts by the people of US Vice President JD Vance. According to senior officials in Israel, the administration believes that in such a meeting Netanyahu will…
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Senior Israeli officials report that aides to Vice President JD Vance are working to prevent a meeting between Donald Trump and Prime Minister Netanyahu. The concern, according to these officials, is that Netanyahu would use such a meeting to push Trump toward a harder line on Iran. This reveals internal U.S. administration friction over how to manage the Israeli prime minister's influence on Trump's foreign policy instincts.