Netanyahu minimizes friction with Trump: 'Sometimes we have tactical differences, but we resolve them'

Trump admits to having had an angry argument with Netanyahu on the phone
The Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, minimized the recent friction he had with the President of the United States, Donald Trump, in an interview with the broadcaster CNBC this Wednesday (3).
After Trump admitted to a podcast that he spoke on the phone with the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, "in an angry way" over the weekend, during a conversation in which he tried to pressure Netanyahu to stop attacking Lebanon, the The Israeli prime minister tried to calm the situation.
"Trump and I agree on the main points regarding Iran. Sometimes we have tactical differences, but we resolve them," he said, justifying the intensification of the offensive against Hezbollah, an extremist group that operates in Lebanon: "Many of those who attack Israel are in Beirut."
A new round of negotiations with the aim of putting an end to the fighting between Israel and Hezbollah, which is supported by Iran, began this Tuesday (2). This Wednesday, the second and final day of meetings, the US Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, said that he hopes that the "meeting will result in a joint declaration and a plan of action".
The first evidence about a disagreement between Trump and Netanyahu emerged after a report from the news website Axios, which stated that the US president called the Israeli prime minister "crazy" and said that Netanyahu was only not in prison thanks to the US - he has an international arrest warrant issued by the Hague Court.
When asked this Wednesday about the news, Trump confirmed that it was true, despite stating that he "gets along very well" with his ally:
"I was a little disturbed by his constant fights with Lebanon, you know?".
US President Donald Trump speaks to the press alongside Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on December 29, 2025
REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
Trump was referring to to the constant attacks that Israel has made on Lebanon amid the ceasefire in force in the Middle East conflict. Pakistan, which mediated the negotiations, and Iran insist that Lebanon was included in the truce, while the US and Israel insist that only attacks on Iranian territory and the Persian Gulf countries.
Still, Donald Trump has been saying in recent weeks that Israel should no longer attack Lebanon and, this week, said he had ordered Netanyahu to cease the attacks.
But the Israeli leader did not comply with the determination of his main ally, and Israeli forces carried out several bombings on Lebanese territory in recent days. The offensive complicates negotiations between the US and Iran for an agreement to end the war in the Middle East.
Tehran has stated that it will break the ceasefire if Israel continues bombing Lebanon, and, this Wednesday, countries in the Persian Gulf reported drone attacks carried out by Iran. In Kuwait, the country's main airport was hit. In Bahrain, air raid defense system sirens sounded again for the first time since the ceasefire signed on April 16 between the US and Iran.
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Source: G1

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