Netanyahu hails Trump ties, says Israel ‘weaving’ previously unimaginable new regional alliances amid war

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu lauds his relationship with US President Donald Trump amid the ongoing US-Israeli bombing campaign in Iran, saying Israel is also working to forge new regional partnerships during the war.

“We have created an alliance unlike any before with the United States – an alliance with our great friend, my personal friend, President Trump. We speak almost every day. We speak freely, exchange ideas and advice, and make decisions together,” Netanyahu says during his press conference.

He says he and Trump spoke a short time ago, and the president told him, “‘Our relationship is one hundred times stronger than any relationship that has existed between an American president and an Israeli prime minister. We are not thinking only about our countries, or only about this generation. We are thinking about future generations – about the future of humanity.'”

Netanyahu adds that Israel is also pursuing new diplomatic openings in the region.

“In these days, my team and I are weaving additional alliances with countries in the region – alliances that only a few weeks ago would have seemed unimaginable,” he adds, without elaborating.

Trump’s first administration brokered the Abraham Accords normalization agreements between Israel and several Arab states, which Netanyahu and Trump have repeatedly said they hope to expand as part of a broader regional realignment.