Two articles published in the Israeli opposition daily Haaretz shortly after the Trump-Netanyahu press conference take note of a number of features of the occasion that other media coverage ignored.
First: “The news was so shocking that it distracted from the fact that Trump said he would make a decision on Israel’s potential annexation of the West Bank within the next four weeks—a potential paradigm shifting event for the entire Middle East.”
Second: The widespread idea that Trump would pressure Netanyahu on Stage 2 of the ceasefire “went out the window after Trump quickly shifted the goalposts from focusing on the hostages to calling for a U.S. takeover of Gaza.”
