US President Trump accused Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of being the reason for global hatred of Israel in an angry call on Monday, Axios reported.
According to one US official, Trump felt that Netanyahu was reacting disproportionally to Hezbollah’s attacks on Israel. He objected to Israel destroying buildings to take out a single Hezbollah commander, and Israel’s threats against Beirut, Axios wrote.
Another source summarized part of Trump’s comments as “everybody hates you now. Everybody hates Israel because of this,” according to Axios.
While Netanyahu released a statement after the call that Israel’s position “remains the same,” a US official told Axios that Trump had actually “steamrolled” Netanyahu.
“Bibi said, ‘OK, OK, just make sure everything is taken care of,'” Axios quoted the official as saying.
Another official said that this was one of Trump’s worst calls with Netanyahu since the start of his second term.
After the call, Trump announced that Netanyahu had “turned his Troops around,” after he asked him “not to go into a major raid of Beirut,” in a post on Truth Social.