(July 6, 2026 \/ JNS)\n <\/p>\n
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday he hoped an upcoming meeting in Washington with U.S. President Donald Trump will help advance peace efforts with Lebanon and expand the Abraham Accords.<\/p>\n
In his second Fox News interview in 24 hours, Netanyahu reiterated that Israel and the United States \u201csee eye to eye on just about everything.\u201d<\/p>\n
He told \u201cFox & Friends\u201d host Brian Kilmeade that Jerusalem remained Washington\u2019s closest ally in the region and that he and Trump had \u201ca way of ironing out our differences as allies who respect each other.\u201d<\/p>\n
Speaking ahead of Trump\u2019s departure for the 2026 NATO Summit in Ankara, the Israeli leader urged Washington not to provide advanced fighter jets or engines to Turkey, saying that doing so would undermine both America\u2019s and the Jewish state\u2019s military edge in the region.<\/p>\n
The premier accused Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan of calling for Israel\u2019s destruction and cited Ankara\u2019s hostility toward Cyprus and Greece.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t think they should be given F-35s or the engines for their fighter jets, because that\u2019ll upset the power balance in the Middle East,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Turning to Iran, Netanyahu said the joint U.S.-Israeli military campaign against the Islamic Republic \u201cweakened it substantially, and that opens up the path for some other peace deals.\u201d<\/p>\n
Netanyahu concluded by praising the United States as \u201ca tremendous force for good\u201d and congratulated Americans on the occasion of the country\u2019s 250th anniversary, saying that without the U.S., \u201cthere won\u2019t be any democracy in the world and there won\u2019t be any freedom in the world.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(July 6, 2026 \/ JNS) Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday he hoped an upcoming meeting…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":527945,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[85,46,43],"class_list":["post-527944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527944","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=527944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527944\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/527945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=527944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=527944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=527944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}