By America-Today.  November,1 2024

Former US president Donald Trump has told Prime Minister Benjamin

Netanyahu that he wants Israel to wrap up the war in Gaza by the time he

returns to office if he wins the election, two sources familiar with the

matter revealed to The Times of Israel this week.

The message was first conveyed when the Republican presidential nominee

hosted the Israeli premier at his Florida Mar-a-Lago resort in July,

according to a former Trump administration official and an Israeli official.

While Trump has publicly confirmed having told Netanyahu that he wants

Israel to win the war quickly, the sources speaking to The Times of Israel

are the first to reveal that a timeline was attached to that request.

The former US official stressed that Trump wasn’t specific in his appeal to

Netanyahu and could well back “residual” IDF activity in Gaza, so long as

Jerusalem has officially ended the war.