President Donald Trump signed a proclamation recognizing Israel's 'sovereign right' over the Golan Heights alongside Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House.
Trump said the announcement would assist Israel with its defense, hanging the declaration on a 'despicable' rocket attack on a Tel Aviv home early Monday morning.
'This was a long time in the making. Should have taken place many decades ago,' the president said as he signed the document.
Before the leaders left the room, Netanyahu told the president, who doesn't consume alcohol, that he brought him a case of the 'finest wine' that he hoped he would accept.
The foreign leader joked that the gift could spark an 'investigation' - in a brazen reference to both their political scandals. 'I hope they don't open an investigation on it,' he said.
President Donald Trump signed a proclamation recognizing Israel's 'sovereign right' over the Golan Heights alongside Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House
President Donald Trump embraces Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, as Vice President Mike Pence looks on, in the Diplomatic Reception Room of the White House
TWO PEAS IN A POD: They leaders met afterward in the Oval Office
President Trump wrapped his arms around Israel's prime minister as he threw open the doors to the White House to Netanyahu hours after he was cleared of criminal allegations by the U.S. Department of Justice.
He expressed condolences for the Hamas attack that wounded seven people.
'We do not want to see another attack like the one that was suffered,' he said at a hastily-arranged signing ceremony in the Diplomatic Reception room of the White House.
The U.S. president described the American-Israeli relationship as a 'powerful one' as talked from behind a podium about the defense and non-defense actions his administration has taken to support the allied nation.
'We will confront the poison of anti-Semitism through our words and more importantly our actions,' he said.
Netanyahu said Trump is a 'dear friend' of Israel who has 'always been there,' including today.
'Israel will not this. I will not tolerate this, and as we speak, Israel is responding forcefully to this wanted aggression to this wanton aggression,' Netanyahu said of the attack. 'I have a simple message to Israel's enemies: we will do whatever we must do to defend our people and defend our state.'
Trump was supposed to host Netanyahu at the White House on Monday and again on Tuesday. The Israeli PM said he would cut his visit short as Israel mobilized against Hamas in response to the rocket launch.
'Before I go it was so kind of you to invite me here, it was so important for me to come to the White House,' said Netanyahu, who was due to leave the U.S. after his White House visit.
The dust has just begun to settle for Trump, who no longer has the threat of the special counsel investigation looming over him. For Netanyahu, however, a legal and political fight has only just begun.
He has to stand for reelection in Israel in two weeks, and Israel's attorney general said last month that he intends to indict Netanyahu on corruption charges. A pre-indictment hearing was subsequently delayed until after the April 9 election.
Netanyahu called the indictment threat 'blood libel' and the investigation into gifts he took an 'unprecedented witch hunt,' borrowing on a term Trump used to describe government probes into his associates' alleged collusion with Russia and obstruction of justice.
Like Trump, he claims he's being harassed by government enemies. 'If it not Bibi — there's no investigation,' he's said
His administration is accused of making regulatory changes to Israel's telcom industry specifically designed to benefit Bezeq, the parent company of news website Walla, in exchange for positive coverage of the embattled prime minister.
Netanyahu and Bezeq's prime shareholder, Shaul Elovitch engaged in a 'bribe-based relationship,' an Israeli police investigation determined. Elovitch and his family are also on notice that they may be charged.
The politician who's on his second stint as prime minister — having held the position once prior to the decade-long monopoly he's seeking to extend — has previously been accused by police of violating bribery laws. Twice. He has never been charged.
If successful at winning a fourth consecutive term in next month's election, Netanyahu, 69, will become Israel's longest-serving prime minister.
Trump's dogged support for Netanyahu, and an abashedly pro-Israel foreign policy, has given the Likud Party prime minister a lifeline.
Defending Netanyahu at a Feb. 28 press conference in Hanoi, Vietnam, the same day the Israeli attorney general said he'd seek to formally press charges, the American president said, 'He's done a great job as prime minister. He's tough, he's smart, he's strong.'
Barack Obama avoided Netanyahu weeks before the 2015 election in Israel, on the grounds that a White House welcome could provide fodder for Netanyahu's reelection campaign.
The Israeli prime minister addressed the U.S. Congress, instead, during an almost annual trip to Washington to speak at the American Israeli Public Affairs Committee conference.
Obama was accused of snubbing Netanyahu, whom he was never particularly close to.
President Trump's pronouncement last week that the U.S. would recognize Israel's sovereignty in the Golan Heights region and his decision to host Netanyahu at the White House twice while he's in Washington have, comparatively, exacted allegations of favoritism from the Israeli prime minister.
The alliance could prove helpful for Trump when his name his on the ballot next fall.
He's claimed repeatedly in recent week that his political opponents are 'anti-Israel' and 'anti-Jewish' amid a battle over rhetoric considered to be anti-Semitic.
Trump renewed the charge on Friday as he spoke to DailyMail.com at the White House before he departed in Marine One.
The president called Democratic presidential candidates who succumbed to pressure from progressives a disgrace over their decision to sit out AIPAC.
He's not attending the conference, either, but he'll be represented by both the vice president and America's top diplomat.
Trump has plenty of other pro-Israel actions to point in 2020, as well.
His first trip aboard as president, in May of 2017, included a stop in Jerusalem, He stopped decades of dodging by U.S. lawmakers when he uprooted the U.S. embassy from Tel Aviv and declared Jerusalem the capital of Israel. The U.S. pulled out of an international nuclear agreement with Iran and reimposed back-breaking sanctions on the enemy of Israel last fall.
The president's son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner, whom he tasked with putting together an indefinitely delayed Middle East peace plan, has likewise known Netanyahu since he he was a child. The Israeli leader once slept in Kushner's bed, briefly displacing the teen, during a visit to the states.
At a Feb. 2017 press conference with Trump at the White House, weeks after the novice politician's swearing in as the 45th President of the United States, Netanyahu teased Kushner, whom he acknowledged knowing since he was a tyke.
'I've known the president and I've known his family and his team for a long time,' he added, 'and there is no greater supporter of the Jewish people and the Jewish state than President Donald Trump. I think we should put that to rest.'
Trump told the visiting leader during the news conference: 'Your perseverance in the face of hostility, your open democracy in the face of violence, and your success in the face of tall odds is truly inspirational.'
One of Trump's outstanding promises, as it pertains to Israel, is a Middle Eastern peace accord. Each year of his administration it has been delayed, and Trump was not optimistic in February that one could be reached.
The Palestinians severed ties with U.S. negotiators after the embassy move. Relations were further damaged when Trump cut off U.S. aid to the territory.
'I've heard that the toughest of all deals — when they talk about tough deals; we all like deals — but the toughest of all deals would be peace between Israel and Palestinians. They say it's like the impossible deal. I'd love to be able to produce it. We'll see what happens,' he said at his Hanoi presser in February.
He suggested his administration would not consent to facilitating talks until the Palestinians say 'the right things' about America. That's when he said payments would also restart.
'I said, why would we pay somebody that's not saying nice things about us, and not really wanting to go to the peace table? And they've been much better. And we'll see what happens.'
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Trump said the announcement would assist Israel with its defense, hanging the declaration on a ...
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Emily Ratajkowski is a showman, on and off the stage. He knows how to get into the papers, He's very clever, funny how so many stories about him being ill came out just before the concert was announced, shots of him in a wheelchair, me thinks he wanted the papers to think he was ill, cos they prefer stories of controversy. Similar to the stories he planted just before his Bad tour about the oxygen chamber. Worked a treat lol. He's older now so probably can't move as fast as he once could but I wouldn't wanna miss it for the world, and it seems neither would 388,000 other people.
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