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Wednesday, May 20, 2026

President Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu discussed a new effort to reach a deal with Iran in a difficult call on Tuesday, three sources said, with one source saying Netanyahu's "hair was on fire" after the call.

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A revised peace memo was drafted by Qatar and Pakistan with input from the other regional mediators to try to bridge the gaps between the U.S. and Iran, the sources said.

It comes with Trump vacillating over ordering a massive strike on Iran and holding out for a deal.

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"Netanyahu is highly skeptical about the negotiations and wants to resume the war to further degrade Iran's military capabilities and weaken the regime by destroying its critical infrastructure.

Trump also said Netanyahu "will do whatever I want him to do" on Iran, though he also said they had a good relationship. The two leaders have had temporary disagreements on Iran before but have remained closely coordinated throughout the war."

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"Trump told Netanyahu that the mediators were working on a "letter of intent" that both the U.S. and Iran would sign to formally end the war and launch a 30-day period of negotiations on issues like Iran's nuclear program and opening of the Strait of Hormuz, a U.S. source briefed on the call said.

Two Israeli sources said the two leaders were in disagreement about the way forward, while the U.S. source briefed on the call said "Bibi's hair was on fire after the call."

The source said Israel's ambassador to Washington had informed U.S. lawmakers that Netanyahu was concerned about the call. An embassy spokesperson denied that characterization and said "the ambassador does not comment on private conversations."

Two sources noted that Netanyahu has been highly worried at previous stages of the negotiations, even as deals failed to materialize.

"Bibi is always concerned," one source said."

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We're going to end up with Trump's Excellent Adventure costing lives and taxpayer money for nothing other than a worse situation than before he tore up the last Agreement.

Iran remarked early on that getting Ownership of the Straits was more important to them than nukes. And they are now headed towards getting both.

#1 | Posted by Corky at 2026-05-20 08:14 PM | Reply

NUKE TEL AVIV

#2 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2026-05-20 09:40 PM | Reply

Here's Trump on how he's polling "99 percent in Israel", and could become PM there if wants to after being President.

Also about some of his support there from white 'Christian Zionists'; the Friends of Zion, which is mostly rich prosperity gospel trash.

vid has their some of their 200 billboards to Trump in Jerusalem, and their own Ad campaign with Trump as, "The Deliver", thanking 'God and Donald Trump'.

www.youtube.com

#3 | Posted by Corky at 2026-05-20 10:01 PM | Reply

What the heck does Benjamin Netanyahu care about the hardworking American taxpayer who suffers without universal healthcare while Israelis enjoy world class medical treatment without onerous paperwork, awful outcomes, or bankruptcy from astronomically-high bills?

The price of irrational Muslim hatred is way too high for Americans.

Soon the US will be $100 billion in the hole:

Cost of Iran War for Israel's Behalf to the American Taxpayer

In 2024, the Democrats already paid the price of ignoring the antiwar bloc of the American left.

Bibi called them "the useful idiots of Iran."

On Monday 4 Nov 2024, the Palestinian death count in Gaza at the hands of the IDF was least 43,374 human beings, mostly women and children; another 102,261 were wounded or maimed.

In response, on Tuesday 5 Nov 2024 (US election day), roughly 5.7 million progressive voters did not cast a ballot out of disgust and stayed home. Those same Samaritans voted in peacetime for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris on Tuesday 3 Nov 2020.

#4 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-05-20 11:57 PM | Reply

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