Trump cuts ties with Netanyahu over manipulation concerns: Israeli media
US President Donald Trump has decided to cut off direct contact with Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, reports Anadolu news agency citing Israeli media.
Yanir Cozin, a correspondent for Israeli Army Radio, on Thursday said in a post on X that Trump made the decision after close associates told Israeli Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer that the president believes that Netanyahu is manipulating him.
Israeli Army Radio quoted an Israeli official as saying that Dermer's tone during recent discussions with senior Republican figures about what Trump should do was seen as arrogant and unhelpful.
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The official said people around Trump told him that "Netanyahu was manipulating him".
"There is nothing Trump hates more than being portrayed as a fool or someone being played. That's why he decided to cut contact with Netanyahu," the official added.
Cozin pointed to the Israeli government's failure to present a concrete plan and roadmap regarding Iran and Yemen's Houthis as a source of the worsening US-Israel relations.
The Israeli Army Radio correspondent also highlighted that the Netanyahu government has failed to offer a concrete proposal on Gaza.
