Netanyahu or Bennett? The quiet battle inside the White House
Witkoff and Kushner on one side, Rubio and Huckabee on the other: beneath the surface, the US administration is divided over who should be Israel’s next prime minister. There was one moment in the Knesset speech on the day the war ended that particularly troubled Likud. It happened when the president spontaneously praised Yair Lapid. “He’s a nice guy,” he said to Netanyahu and then jabbed the prime minister: “You don’t need to be so tough now that the war is over.” Was this a hint that the president intends, God forbid, to adopt neutrality in the upcoming election. Continue reading Netanyahu or Bennett? The quiet battle inside the White House