In a long analysis on how President-elect Donald Trump forced Netanyahu to accept the same ceasefire agreement he had been rejecting since last May, Haaretz's leading commentator and war correspondent Amos Harel makes the comment that Trump cannot be called pro-Israel or pro-Netanyahu. (In a historical sense, are being pro-Netanyahu and pro-Israel mutually contradictory?)
“During the months in which he rejected the plan, which had already been proposed last May by the Biden administration, Netanyahu was mainly worried about his radical right-wing allies Bezalel Smotrich and Itamar Ben-Gvir, who threatened to dismantle his coalition. It now appears that Trump left him with no other choice. For years, people have been saying that Netanyahu is the sum of all his fears; it turns out that Trump scares him even more, perhaps justifiably so.
