Donald Trump rages ‘everybody hates Israel’ in tense phone call with Netanyahu | World | News
“I’m saving your a**. Everybody hates you now. Everybody hates Israel because of this.”
The report about Trump’s explosion comes after tensions in the Middle East escalated when Iran threatened to attack Israel if strikes on Lebanon continued.
Israel and Hezbollah have been exchanging strikes despite a ceasefire in place.
Trump said that after “a very productive call” with Netanyahu and later with Hezbollah chiefs, “any [Israeli] troops that are on their way” to Beirut had been turned back.
The US and Israel carried out joint strikes on several key Iranian sites on February 28 and Iran retaliated by striking sites across the Middle East and closing the Strait of Hormuz waterway, through which 20% of global oil traded passes.
A fragile, short-term ceasefire holds, but a long-term agreement has not been reached.
The US leader said in an interview on Monday that he thinks he thinks an agreement with Iran to extend the ceasefire and reopen the Strait of Hormuz could happen “over the next week.”
“There was a little glitch today, but I turned that one around very quickly, as you probably noticed earlier,” Trump told ABC News.
He said the glitch was that the Iran was were about Israel’s attacks on Lebanon.
“So, I spoke with Hezbollah, and I said no shooting, and I talked to Bibi [Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu], and said, no shooting, and they both stopped shooting each other,” Trump said.
