When Trump was ‘disturbed’ with Netanyahu’s gift: it was a pager that Israel sold to Hizbullah
In September 2024, thousands of handheld pages and walkie-talkies of Hizbullah operators exploded together in two separate incidents in Lebanon and Syria. It was an Israeli attack surname Operation Grim Bipper. Israel secretly packed Pagers with explosives and sold them to Hizbullah operators.Months later, when Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited the White House for his first visit to the second Trump Term in February, he gifted Trump to a golden pager and a silver to a Vice President JD Vance. Donald Trump told a colleague that the gift was disturbed after what happened in Lebanon and Syria – as reported by NYT.During the meeting, Netanyahu gave Trump a presentation about Iran and showed images of various atomic sites in the country. But at that time Trump was not convinced and wondering if Netanyahu should be included. From that ‘disturbing’ gift, the Israeli policy of the US increased a big innings with Donald Trump in the last few months, which now weighted whether America should be involved in Israel’s attacks on Iranian nuclear sites. The President met his national security team on Tuesday to discuss the next steps.In a social media post on Tuesday, Trump threatened the Iranian supreme leader Ali Khamini and said that the US knew where he was. “He is an easy goal, but there is safe,” Trump wrote. “We are not taking him out (kill!), At least not for now. But we don’t want missiles to be shot at citizens, or American soldiers. Our patience is wearing thin.”Khamenei refunded the danger and stated that any form of American military intervention would “be found with irreparable disadvantages”. He said, “Wise people who know Iran, its people, and its history never talks to this nation in the language of dangers, because the Iranians are not going to surrender.”
Trump was getting impatient with Iran at a slow pace of conversation
In addition to Israel’s pressure, Trump was also impatient with Iran at the slow pace of conversation and began to conclude that the talks were not going anywhere. NYT reported that Trump vaccinated for months to include Netanyahu as he told a colleague that Netanyahu was trying to pull him into another Middle East war that he promised in his election campaign that he would keep America out. But he also believed that Iranians were playing him in diplomatic talks.
