Gidi Grinstein: Trump-Netanyahu meeting ‘sensitive’

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The meeting between US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will be sensitive, with conflicting views on both sides, former Israeli peace negotiator Gidi Grinstein says.   #Trump #Netanyahu

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00:00All right, I just want to ask you about the state of relations between the two men, because

00:05relations are reported to have soured briefly back in 2020 when Netanyahu, Prime Minister

00:11Netanyahu, congratulated President Biden for his election victory.

00:15Has the relationship been patched up, do you think?

00:17I'm not sure.

00:18There are conflicting reports about that.

00:20Certainly, they were not, the relationship right now are not what they were in the past.

00:24There were also significant rumors that Netanyahu was going to be invited to the inauguration,

00:29but then he was not.

00:30There was another set of rumors that his wife and son were going to be invited to the inauguration,

00:35to the rest of, at least in the media, they were not present there.

00:39And there are a lot of people around Trump who support or endorse a much more pragmatic

00:48outlook for the resolution of the war in Gaza, and tied to advancing normalization with Saudi,

00:57and this, I would say, universe or ecosystem around Trump is very suspicious of the very

01:04right-wing coalition that Netanyahu has circled himself in Israel.

01:10So I think it's going to be a very sensitive meeting between the two men.

01:14I think on camera it will look good, but behind the scenes there is conflicting views.

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