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02-15-2017, 12:00 PM
Netanyahu: There is no bigger supporter of Israel than Trump
On the agenda at the press conference are some of the region's most volatile issues: the war in Syria, the Iran nuclear file and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and US President Donald Trump held their first press conference together on Wednesday.
It is the first time the two leaders have met since Trump's inauguration on January 20th.
During the White House press conference, the two discussed the creation of a peace deal between Israel and Palestinians and the potential for a two-state solution.
Trump said that he'd "like to see [Netanyahu] hold off on settlements for a bit." He also added that he thinks "we are going to make a deal," to which Netanyahu responded "We'll see."
Netanyahu said at the end of the conference that "there is no bigger support of Israel and the Jewish State than President Donald Trump."
Netanyahu spent much of Tuesday huddled with senior advisers in Washington preparing for the talks. Officials said they wanted no gaps to emerge between US and Israeli thinking during the scheduled two-hour Oval Office meeting.
Attention will also be paid to body language. While the two men have known each other since the 1980s, Trump has shown a tendency when meeting other leaders to throw them off balance with lengthy, domineering handshakes.
For Netanyahu, who has spent 11 years in power but never previously overlapped with a Republican president, the gathering is an opportunity to reset ties after a frequently combative relationship with Democrat Barack Obama.
Social media exchanges suggested a budding bromance between Netanyahu and Trump, who has pledged to be the "best friend" Israel has ever had in the White House. But the US president has more recently tempered his pro-Israel stance.
http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Politics-And-Diplomacy/Watch-Netanyahu-and-Trump-meet-for-first-time-in-Washington-481632
On the agenda at the press conference are some of the region's most volatile issues: the war in Syria, the Iran nuclear file and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and US President Donald Trump held their first press conference together on Wednesday.
It is the first time the two leaders have met since Trump's inauguration on January 20th.
During the White House press conference, the two discussed the creation of a peace deal between Israel and Palestinians and the potential for a two-state solution.
Trump said that he'd "like to see [Netanyahu] hold off on settlements for a bit." He also added that he thinks "we are going to make a deal," to which Netanyahu responded "We'll see."
Netanyahu said at the end of the conference that "there is no bigger support of Israel and the Jewish State than President Donald Trump."
Netanyahu spent much of Tuesday huddled with senior advisers in Washington preparing for the talks. Officials said they wanted no gaps to emerge between US and Israeli thinking during the scheduled two-hour Oval Office meeting.
Attention will also be paid to body language. While the two men have known each other since the 1980s, Trump has shown a tendency when meeting other leaders to throw them off balance with lengthy, domineering handshakes.
For Netanyahu, who has spent 11 years in power but never previously overlapped with a Republican president, the gathering is an opportunity to reset ties after a frequently combative relationship with Democrat Barack Obama.
Social media exchanges suggested a budding bromance between Netanyahu and Trump, who has pledged to be the "best friend" Israel has ever had in the White House. But the US president has more recently tempered his pro-Israel stance.
http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Politics-And-Diplomacy/Watch-Netanyahu-and-Trump-meet-for-first-time-in-Washington-481632