Trump: Israel has ‘lived up’ to Gaza peace plan, but should learn to give violators a second chance

Lazar Berman is The Times of Israel's diplomatic reporter

US President Donald Trump (right) and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu leave at the conclusion of a joint press conference at Mar-a-Lago, in Palm Beach, Florida, on December 29, 2025. (Jim WATSON / AFP)
US President Donald Trump (right) and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu leave at the conclusion of a joint press conference at Mar-a-Lago, in Palm Beach, Florida, on December 29, 2025. (Jim WATSON / AFP)

US President Donald Trump says he is “not concerned about anything Israel is doing” around his peace plan for Gaza. “I’m concerned about what other people are doing or maybe aren’t doing.”

He stresses that Israel has “lived up to the plan. They’re strong, they’re solid.”

At the same time, Trump says that sometimes Israel “doesn’t understand that when someone violates something, you want to give them a second chance. We’ve given them a couple of second chances,” he says, pointing at Netanyahu, appearing to imply Israel has committed some sort of violation.

But Trump emphasizes that “Israel has lived up to the plan, one hundred percent,” adding that “we made the plan possible by taking out Iran.”

He repeats his warning that if Iran is trying to rebuild its nuclear or ballistic missile program, “we’re going to have no choice but very quickly to eradicate that buildup.”

“We know exactly where they’re going, what they’re doing,” he says of Iran.

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