A Wednesday phone call between President Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was quite tense, according to US officials familiar with the situation. Netanyahu had loudly objected to Trump’s talk of withdrawing US troops from Syria.
Netanyahu has opposed the US troops leaving Syria, arguing that it would leave the nation to Iran. The US military operation in Syria, however, is not aimed at fighting Iran in the first place, and rather is meant to fight ISIS.
Officials indicated that Trump’s plan was to have all US forces out of Syria within six months, a detail officials previously had not provided. The White House has since indicated the pullout is not happening, and Netanyahu has praised Trump for his “commitment to Israel’s security.”
In addition to his own administration resisting his impulse to withdraw from Syria, Trump appears to have faced opposition from foreign allies. In addition to Netanyahu, the Saudi Crown Prince also expressed opposition to the ending of the war.
Leave Syria yesterday!
We Americans need to find a way to try to re-build the political will to withdraw our Troops from the Middle East after the forced consent of the pac money driven media and political parties deflated it in 2016.
Both Trump and Bernie Sanders were leading by the crowd numbers and both Candidates also claimed they were going to withdraw our Troops from the Middle East and then something happened.
Clinton was cheated in by pac money so Trump could not lose and all that America first stuff quickly became an Israel and Saudi Arabia first agenda. Pac money has overturned the will of the American People.
Can’t leave Syria to Iran. Um… can’t leave it to Syria, either, apparently. So… what. Stay forever? If not Syria, then who? A permanent American colony in the Eastern Syrian desert?
It’d be interesting to hear what Netanyahu actually thinks should happen, if Iran, and Syria both, are to be stopped from governing… Syria.
The plan is to goat someone to strike and kill bunch of service members to make that stay permanent.
“A permanent American colony in the Eastern Syrian desert?”
“A permanent American/Israeli colony in the Eastern Syrian desert?”
That’s also where the oil is!!!
No, it isn’t about oil, bird brain. It’s about Israel.
Trump, “take the oil”!!! Bird brain!!!
Look at a map of “Greater Israel” it is clear what Netanyahu thinks should happen. He is just not capable of making it happen.
Makes one wonder – are there really Americans who still haven’t figured out Israel is land-stealing criminal state and that they are bribing our politicians into serving their nefarious schemes?
How many Faux Noise viewers/koolade drinkers are there?
Perhaps Netanyahu could give Syria back its Golan Heights (producing “Israeli wines”) and the other parts it is destroying, and try to allow people to live, not be attacked and killed for his whims.
Trump didn’t like being schooled by Netanyahoo on who is in charge evidently.
Trump is such a novice. Zionazis own USA.
Let Israel send troops to Syria if they don’t like it!
They are cowards.
Awww, why didn’t they leak the transcript to that phone call?
Where’s Kellyanne when we finally have a use for her.
Will the ‘real’ Donald Trump please stand up? Another flip-flop. (This is Trump’s official policy: flip flop.)
Getting out of Syria? Just kidding…
The real reason Trump was “overruled”.
Who is in charge? Trump? Silly me. Bibi and the Ziocons.
If only for once there were a US president who followed his instincts, did what is right for the country, listen to his constituents, and kept his promises.
That is exactly what Bibi was trying to do, in his mind, when he politically assassinated his Jewish political rivals in Israel and mass murdered entire families in Gaza. When you say Trump, you might well say Bibi. They are the same cult with the same political formula.
To put it kindly, “F–c Netanyahoo
What are the Israelis going to do when the economies of the USA and Europe fail completely. Won’t be funding their defense any longer.
Of course, Syria itself has no importance. What the Israelis, Saudis and neocons in the USA want is all that matters. I am sure the USA can find plenty of other wars to engage in as well.
No to fight Iran The United States has some missiles in Poland Checkoslavokia and Romania .