Netanyahu’s Meeting With Trump to Set Tone for U.S.-Israel Relations<br />Netanyahu told that I have navigated Israeli-U.S. relations in a prudent manner, and I will continue to do so now,<br />"The earth will shake." The tussle between the two men is personal — Mr. Bennett would like to succeed Mr. Netanyahu as prime minister — and central to the longstanding conflict here: Mr. Bennett argues<br />that the time for a separate state for Palestinians is over and that Israel has an opportunity under Mr. Trump to significantly expand Jewish presence in the West Bank.<br />12, 2017<br />JERUSALEM — As President Trump appeared to shift closer to the political center on several contentious policies on Israel, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu suggested on Sunday<br />that it was unrealistic to expect their two countries to agree completely on all issues.<br />In his statements on Sunday, Mr. Netanyahu also said he had registered his opposition to appointing the<br />well-regarded former Palestinian prime minister, Salam Fayyad, as the United Nations envoy to Libya.<br />Mr. Trump has also backed off, for now at least, a campaign promise to relocate the United States Embassy to Jerusalem from Tel Aviv, a move<br />opposed by the Palestinians, who would consider it a de facto recognition of Israel’s annexation of East Jerusalem after the 1967 war.<br />But amid growing challenges from the right, Mr. Netanyahu said he was the strongest leader<br />to navigate the relationship — the nation’s most important, yet often its trickiest.
