President Donald Trump’s tumultuous relationship with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu erupted into a telephone shouting match last fall over the Israeli leader’s reluctance to accept a U.S.-brokered ceasefire in his war against Hamas.
According to the new book Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump, the insider look at Trump’s return to power by New York Times reporters Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan, Trump envoy Steve Witkoff and the president’s son-in-law Jared Kushner believed Netanyahu would get cold feet and attempt to back out of a 20-point peace plan they had devised in the wake of an Israeli airstrike on a Hamas leader in Doha, Qatar.
