{"id":2921,"date":"2026-10-18T22:00:19","date_gmt":"2026-10-18T17:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=2921"},"modified":"2026-10-18T22:00:19","modified_gmt":"2026-10-18T17:00:19","slug":"trump-endorses-netanyahu-ahead-of-israels-parliamentary-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=2921","title":{"rendered":"Trump endorses Netanyahu ahead of Israel\u2019s parliamentary election"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>US President Donald Trump on Sunday endorsed his ally Benjamin Netanyahu as the longtime Israeli prime minister \u200bstruggles for an edge in next week\u2019s parliamentary election.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Trump praised Netanyahu as a \u201cgreat \u200cwarrior prime minister\u201d and peace partner, crediting him with joining the United States in launching strikes on Iran in February. The conflict, in its seventh month, has disrupted energy markets globally and wreaked havoc across \u200bthe Middle East, damaging critical infrastructure and destabilising regional economies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBibi Netanyahu has been Strong, \u200bBrave, and Brilliant in the face of tremendous opposition, including that coming \u2060from even Israel, itself,\u201d Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDespite all of that, \u200bhe has endured and, in fact, he has thrived! I have watched Bibi under the \u200bmost trying of times. Normal men or women in such situations would have wilted under the pressure \u2014 But Bibi did not wilt; he actually got stronger, and maintains that same Strength today.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In his message, addressed \u200bto \u201cthe Great People of Israel,\u201d Trump added, \u201cPlease let this Letter serve to represent my Complete and Total \u200bEndorsement of Bibi Netanyahu in his upcoming Race for Re-Election as Prime Minister of Israel.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Trump endorsement \u200cis \u2060not certain to give Netanyahu and his right-wing Likud party a boost in the October 27 national election, as Israeli public support for Trump has diminished amid Israeli-US disagreements over Iran.<\/p>\n<p>Polls have suggested no candidate has a clear path to power. Israel\u2019s prime minister is chosen through coalition-building in parliament rather than by \u200bdirect popular vote.<\/p>\n<p>It will \u200bbe Israel\u2019s first vote \u2060since the Hamas attack on October 7, 2023, that shook the country and plunged the Middle East into turmoil, as Israel went \u200bto war in Gaza, Lebanon and Iran.<\/p>\n<p>The election could determine whether Netanyahu \u200bremains in \u2060power after one of the most consequential periods in Israel\u2019s history, or is defeated by centrist rivals promising to usher in a new era.<\/p>\n<p>Netanyahu promptly expressed his thanks to Trump on X, saying, \u201cTogether we \u2060will \u200bcomplete the mission!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trump has broken with longtime US tradition \u200bby endorsing candidates in elections in foreign countries, including Hungary, Colombia, Argentina, Japan and Honduras.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US President Donald Trump on Sunday endorsed his ally Benjamin Netanyahu as the longtime Israeli prime minister \u200bstruggles for an edge in next week\u2019s parliamentary election. Trump praised Netanyahu as a \u201cgreat \u200cwarrior prime minister\u201d and peace partner, crediting him with joining the United States in launching strikes on Iran in February. The conflict, in its seventh month, has disrupted energy markets globally and wreaked havoc across \u200bthe Middle East, damaging critical infrastructure and destabilising regional economies. \u201cBibi Netanyahu has been Strong, \u200bBrave, and Brilliant in the face of tremendous&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"gutentor_comment":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2921\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}