Amid reports of a rift between Benjamin Netanyahu and Donald Trump, the Israeli leader said the current President is the “greatest friend that Israel has ever had in the White House.”
When asked about a recent report in Axios that described a tense call between Netanyahu and Trump, the Israeli leader told CNBC News on Wednesday, “No, this has been this has been a great relationship because he’s been the greatest friend that Israel has ever had in the White House.”
“We have common goals. Sometimes, we have, as in the best of families, you have these tactical disagreements,” he added. “We always find a way to work them out, and we do so as great friends. We can disagree in the morning, and by the afternoon, we have common action.”
Axios reported that Trump and Netanyahu held a call Monday that devolved into an explicit rant by the President. On Wednesday, confirmed the hostile nature of the call in an interview with the New York Post, but added that “We’ve worked very well together. I like Bibi a lot. And I work very well with him.”
The reported rift between the American and Israeli leaders widened over Tel Aviv’s planned attacks on Beirut. After Israel ordered the evacuation of some suburbs of the Lebanese capital, Iranian media announced Tehran would halt talks with Washington.
In April, the US and Iran agreed to a ceasefire. Tehran says a condition of the truce is Tel Aviv’s halting its war in Lebanon. However, Israel has ramped up the war and expanded its control of Lebanon.
