{"id":499368,"date":"2026-06-18T16:44:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T16:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/499368\/"},"modified":"2026-06-18T16:44:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T16:44:08","slug":"donald-trump-expresses-reservations-over-supporting-benjamin-netanyahu-in-israeli-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/499368\/","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump expresses reservations over supporting Benjamin Netanyahu in Israeli elections"},"content":{"rendered":"

US President Donald Trump<\/a> expressed some reservations about endorsing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the upcoming elections before he knew who the other candidates were.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In a Thursday interview with Israeli public broadcaster KAN News, he said he would “most likely endorse” Netanyahu but wanted to learn more about the other candidates.<\/p>\n

“I’ll have to look at who’s running, but I like Bibi very much. I would be most likely to endorse him,” the president told KAN News’s Nathan Guttman.<\/p>\n

“But I need to see who is running. I have a good relationship with Bibi, but he needs to be more rational. I am willing to meet with him. He’s doing a very good job; he’s got to be a little bit more rational.\u201d<\/p>\n

This comes after Trump’s other recent criticisms of Netanyahu<\/a>. On Wednesday, Trump claimed the pair have a “little dispute” over Lebanon, and added that Netanyahu “gets a little excited sometimes.”<\/p>\n

“I say you can do a little softer touch, maybe you don’t need to bring down a building<\/a> every time a Hezbollah member walks into it.”<\/p>\n

In addition, US Vice President JD Vance said that the US would not remove sanctions on Iran if it were still funding a terrorist organization, he said, in a reference to Hezbollah.<\/p>\n

He then criticized a “weird panic… in the Israeli system” in regard to Iran.<\/p>\n

“They assume that everything that is contemplated that is good for Iran will happen – but that will happen without the Iranians changing any behavior,” Vance said in an interview with the New York Times. “That’s not how the deal is written.”<\/p>\n

“I find this whole freakout in Israel a little bit odd because I think that it comes from a place of mistrust, and I think that America has earned the trust of that region of the world,” Vance said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"US President Donald Trump expressed some reservations about endorsing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the upcoming elections before…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":499369,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[147752,49,54,86,85,46,11487,88,43],"class_list":["post-499368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-2026-israeli-elections","tag-benjamin-netanyahu","tag-donald-trump","tag-hezbollah","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-jd-vance","tag-lebanon","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=499368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499368\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/499369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=499368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=499368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=499368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}