Two wars – a real and bloody, that of Gaza, and another figurative, that of the tariffs -jalonar on Monday the meeting they plan to hold the president of the United States, Donald Trump, with the prime minister of Israel, Benjamín Netanyahu in Washington. Other regional issues will be on the table of the two leaders, according to official Israeli sources to local media, such as the pressures on Iran and the (TPI) of The Hague.
It was of no use that last Tuesday Israel announced that it suspended the imports for imports from the US. Straight allies, such as the Jewish state itself, were not saved from the wave of tariffs that Trump would impose them the next day, of the. Israeli exports reached a value of 22,000 million dollars last year (just over 20,000 million euros). Despite the unpredictable of a politician with an entrepreneur’s soul like Trump, he does not get close on the horizon, at least in the short term, that bilateral relations go to see resentful. The US president has given repeated samples of being next to Israel, with ads such as the delivery of weapons that his predecessor, Joe Biden, had blocked; raising the sanctions to violent Jewish settlers, or raising the degree of pressure against the Palestinians.
The Israeli president, who has still maintained acts in Budapest this Sunday during his official visit, takes care of and measures his departures abroad before the danger of being arrested for alleged war crimes and against humanity committed in Gaza. This week was not only, but this one took advantage of, in front of Netanyahu, to announce its abandonment as a member country of the TPI. It is in Hungary where he received Trump’s invitation, that under no circumstances will that arrest warrant effective.
Although the Republican leader insisted that he was going to end it, reality resists him. As soon as he took possession, he made public an idea that almost nobody considers realizable: empty Gaza, with 2.3 million inhabitants, from Palestinians and that, under Washington’s command, becomes a kind of holiday zone on the banks of the Mediterranean. Netanyahu and his ministers enthusiastically received the plan despite being considered a crime under international legislation. At the moment, it is nothing more than a distraction maneuver that, recurringly, dusts into their statements by disguising it as a voluntary emigration project.
The head of Israeli government does not seem to show any interest in the war ends. On March 18, he ordered the end of almost two months of truce at the Palestinian enclave. In the background it beats the matter that most worries the Israeli society: the, of which more than half have been given by dead. Hamas presses even publishing every time videos – the last this Saturday – in which the captives claim to their authorities to reach an agreed exit and not by the weapons. Meanwhile, the demonstrations follow each other by pressing the prime minister for his authoritarian drift and to manage the return of the hostages. But the street understands that both issues go against Netanyahu’s interest, who does not want to depart from power.
To be able to travel to Washington, Netanyahu has made Israeli justice postpone with its appearance before the courts by a corruption trial scheduled for this Monday, but not Wednesday, which would have to be back for that day. This is the fourth visit to the US of the Israeli president and the second since Trump took position in his second term on January 20.
Judicial storm
Ronen Bar, the deposed head of the Internal Secret Services (Shin Bet), to which Netanyahu has defenestrated despite the opposition of the Supreme Court, holds in a letter sent on Friday to that court that the prime minister does not want under any circumstances to put an end to war, which he uses as a distraction weapon under the judicial gale that stalks him. In addition, it understands Bar, achieving a negotiated agreement for the end of the kidnappings would endanger the support of ultra -nationalist parties that underpin the government coalition. The Shin Bet Chief assures that they want to separate him from his position since 2024 for not accepting that the Netanyahu trial was delayed and after pressing him for the agency to act against the interests of the Israelis.
Netanyahu declared last Monday as a witness in the one known as Qatar investigated by Shin Bet, shortly after two advisors who worked in the prime minister’s office were arrested. This considers that it is a “political hunt” that seeks to prevent the relief of Ronen Bar at the head of secret services.
