Netanyahu, Donald Trump and Israel
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President Donald Trump told reporters on Wednesday, May 20, that he "could run for prime minister" in Israel.
Trump said Israel and Hezbollah agreed to stop firing on one another and Israeli forces had backed off on raiding Beirut, Lebanon’s capital.
Israel’s government has ordered strikes on the southern suburbs of Beirut, a day after its ground forces reached their deepest point in Lebanon in 26 years and as Hezbollah fired rockets at northern I
Trump said he would be “mandatorily requesting” several Muslim nations sign the Abraham Accords and recognize Israel as part of any peace deal with Iran.
Within hours of US President Donald Trump forcing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to abandon a plan to bomb south Beirut, Israel’s parliament began preparing for elections — highlighting the combustible interplay between war and politics facing the premier.
A nurse looks through a shattered window of the Jabal Amel Hospital into a destroyed building that was hit Monday in an Israeli airstrike, in the southern port city of Tyre, Lebanon, Tuesday, June 2, 2026. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari)