DANNY DANON: Trump-Netanyahu meeting has 3 things on the agenda that could change the Middle East

When Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu touched the tarmac connected Sunday, arsenic helium disembarked the ‘Wing of Zion’ successful Washington, D.C., determination was an undeniable buzz successful the air. 

Not conscionable due to the fact that Netanyahu volition beryllium the archetypal overseas person to sojourn the White House since President Donald Trump returned to the Oval Office. But due to the fact that the Israeli premier’s invitation promises to usher successful a revitalized epoch of diplomacy successful the Middle East, strengthened by a robust U.S.-Israeli alliance. 

The 2 leaders volition convene connected Tuesday day to sermon the adjacent signifier of the hostage merchandise framework, the Iranian threat, arsenic good arsenic prospects of a Saudi-Israel normalization deal. 

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Under President Trump’s archetypal term, we got a glimpse of what a caller Middle East mightiness look like. The historical Abraham Accords, signed successful September 2020 connected the South Lawn of the White House, brought Israel person to the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Morocco. During that archetypal term, President Trump besides embarked connected a ‘maximum pressure’ run connected Iran, aimed astatine sanctioning the authorities and crippling its atomic program. A new, prosperous Middle East was connected the horizon. 

Benjamin Netanyahu leaves Israel connected February 2 for a gathering with President Donald Trump successful Washington D.C. connected February 4, 2025. (Prime Minister's Office)

A groundbreaking normalization woody with the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia mightiness already person been signed by present had Iran-backed Hamas terrorists not thrown the portion into tumult with the massacre of October 7, wherever 1,200 Israelis and overseas nationals were murdered and 250 much were brutally kidnapped. 

In effect to Israel’s attempts to foster determination bid and prosperity, its enemies chose warfare and destruction. 

Our hostages are starting to instrumentality home, though we inactive person a agelong mode to go. Hamas has been decapitated. Hezbollah’s enactment infrastructure has been eviscerated. The Assad authorities successful Syria has fallen. And Israel demonstrated its blase subject mightiness successful the bosom of Iran. 

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Prime Minister Netanyahu and President Trump’s gathering this week volition beryllium 1 of their astir important successful caller memory. 

Defanging the Islamic Republic and its violent proxies volition beryllium a precedence for the 2 leaders. We admit President Trump’s committedness to not allowing the Iranian authorities to go a unsafe atomic superpower that would upend not conscionable regional, but planetary security. 

The autumn of the Assad authorities and a weaker Iran bring america person to Saudi-Israeli normalization. Saudi Arabia has pursued an ambitious modernization program successful caller years and has shunned the benignant of extremism we spot successful different parts of the Arab world. 

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Normalizing relations with Israel is not conscionable astir commercialized agreements. It volition pb to a groundbreaking strategical alignment successful the Middle East that brings bid to all.

President Donald Trump shakes hands with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arsenic they airs for a photograph wrong their gathering astatine Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate, successful Palm Beach connected July 26, 2024.  (Amos Ben-Gershom (GPO) / Handout/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Israel volition ne'er compromise connected the information and information of its radical and borders, but it is simply a federation of bid and volition promote dialog with nations that question practice implicit conflict. 

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