Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu concluded his diplomatic visit to Washington and made a statement before boarding his flight back to Israel.
In his statement, he said, “I am now completing my second visit to the US in two months. This was a very warm visit with my friend President Donald Trump. You could feel the great closeness and friendship between us, and it was expressed in the topics we discussed.”
The main topic of the talks was Iran: “We agree that Iran will not have nuclear weapons. This can be done by agreement, but only if that agreement is a Libyan-style agreement. When you come in, you blow up the facilities, dismantle all the equipment, under US supervision and with US implementation – that’s good. The second possibility is that it won’t be. Let them just drag out the talks, and then the option is military. Everyone understands this. We discussed this at length.”
Netanyahu’s visit comes just days after the Trump administration announced global tariffs that will affect nearly every U.S. trading partner, including Israel. The Prime Minister’s trip to DC was suddenly added to his travel schedule. We are hard pressed to believe that discussion of tariffs was the catalyst for this last minute visit. Once it was learned that Netanyahu was going to DC to meet with President Trump, rumors immediately began to swirl that the real purpose of his visit was to discuss the growing threat of Iran. Given that Netanyahu stated Iran was the main topic of the talks with President Trump and that it was discussed “at length” kind of says it all.