Witkoff denies tensions between Netanyahu, Trump, says media paints ‘small disagreements’ as ‘massive issues’

US Special Envoy to the Middle East Steve Witkoff has added his voice to the growing chorus of officials denying the presence of any tensions between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Donald Trump.

He commented on the matter in an interview with the right-wing Breitbart news site, conducted last week and published this evening.

“Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the Israeli people are a staunch ally of the United States and it goes back the other way,” said Witkoff. “I’ve been at multiple meetings with the president and the prime minister—they’re friendly. They’re good friends in fact.”

He said that this does not mean they see eye-to-eye “on absolutely everything,” but that the media “hears about a small disagreement…then conflates that into some large article about massive issues that they have.”

“Israel is a great partner for the United States, strategically, economically, we think very much alike, we have very similar objectives,” the US envoy said. “They don’t want to see a weaponized nuclear state in the state of Iran. And so, I don’t think there’s much daylight between how they think and how we think from a foreign policy perspective.”