{"id":3327,"date":"2026-10-26T19:03:50","date_gmt":"2026-10-26T14:03:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=3327"},"modified":"2026-10-26T19:03:50","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T14:03:50","slug":"netanyahu-touts-trump-endorsement-on-eve-of-vote-suggests-they-may-restart-war-on-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=3327","title":{"rendered":"Netanyahu touts Trump endorsement on eve of vote, suggests they may restart war on Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu boasted of his endorsement from Donald Trump on the eve of Israel\u2019s election, suggesting the \u200btwo leaders could restart their war against Iran if he wins, after Trump said they should \u201cfinish the job\u201d.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cUS President Donald Trump has come with a \u200cfriendship that has never existed before between an Israeli prime minister and an American president. And it is doubtful we will ever have such a friendly president again,\u201d Netanyahu said in a televised appearance late on Sunday night. \u201cHe has another two years, and he says he is calling on you to vote for me.\u201d<\/p>\n

In his own social media post on Sunday, Trump, who launched the Iran war \u200bjointly with Netanyahu in February, said: \u201cVote for Bibi Netanyahu for Prime Minister, we have to finish the job that we started!\u201d<\/p>\n

Netanyahu said Trump was willing to \u200btake action \u201cthat would finally, finally, remove the Iranian threat\u201d, but only as long as Netanyahu himself remains in power.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd I have already \u2060instructed the Mossad and the IDF to bring down this regime, to bring down this regime because that is the only way to put an end to this \u200bthreat,\u201d Netanyahu said, referring to Israel\u2019s main intelligence service and military.<\/p>\n

The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Netanyahu\u2019s remarks.<\/p>\n

Netanyahu\u2019s leading opponent, centrist former military \u200bChief of Staff Gadi Eisenkot, posted his own comments on social media, praising Trump as \u201ca true friend of Israel\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cI value his efforts and his commitment to Israel\u2019s security, and I am confident that he will work in full cooperation with any leader chosen by the people.\u201d<\/p>\n

<\/a>Eisenkot accuses Netanyahu of fear-mongering<\/h3>\n

Tuesday\u2019s vote, Israel\u2019s first since the October 7, 2023, Hamas attacks, is the first chance for voters \u200bto deliver a verdict on the worst security failure in generations and the wars on multiple fronts that followed.<\/p>\n

With Netanyahu already at the helm of the most right-wing government in \u200bIsraeli history, politics have shifted even further to the right. Nearly all Jewish-led parties, including that of the hawkish Eisenkot, now oppose the \u201ctwo-state solution\u201d that underpinned decades of peace negotiations with the Palestinians.<\/p>\n

But \u200cmany voters \u2060say the divisive politics of Israel\u2019s longest-serving leader make the country weaker. Polls suggest Netanyahu\u2019s Likud Party will lose seats, potentially depriving his coalition of right-wing, far-right and ultra-Orthodox parties of its narrow majority.<\/p>\n

Eisenkot and an array of opposition parties ranging from the rump of the centre-left to the right also have no clear path to unseat him.<\/p>\n

Netanyahu, 77, is an unrivalled master of political survival: the only time since 2009 that opponents managed to wrest him briefly from the premiership, it took four inconclusive elections within two years to \u200bget him out. He was back 18 \u200bmonths later.<\/p>\n

Neither side planned major public \u2060events for Monday. But both posted on social media, drumming on the election\u2019s major themes \u2014 for Netanyahu, that he is the only leader with the mettle to face down Israel\u2019s enemies; for his opponents, that his divisive politics have weakened the country.<\/p>\n

Netanyahu shared an \u200bAI-generated video on Monday of Iran\u2019s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, whose father Ali Khamenei was killed on the first night \u200bof US-Israeli strikes on \u2060Iran in February. Lying in a hospital bed, the younger Khamenei says his own vote would be \u201cdefinitely not Bibi. Another term like this and I will be meeting my father sooner than expected.\u201d<\/p>\n

On Sunday Netanyahu posted a computer-generated photo of a mushroom cloud over Tel Aviv, saying Israel was in existential danger from Iran.<\/p>\n

Eisenkot responded by accusing him of \u201crelying on a campaign \u2060of fear-mongering, \u200blies, and threats\u2014including images of nuclear bombs in the heart of Tel Aviv. This time, it won\u2019t \u200bwork for him.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s endorsement of Netanyahu carries its own political risks a week before a legislative election in which his own Republicans are seeking to hold onto power.<\/p>\n

The Iran war is deeply unpopular in the United \u200bStates, blamed for a surge in prices, especially for fuel. Major fighting has been suspended for months after ceasefire negotiations held without Israeli participation.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu boasted of his endorsement from Donald Trump on the eve of Israel\u2019s election, suggesting the \u200btwo leaders could restart their war against Iran if he wins, after Trump said they should \u201cfinish the job\u201d. \u201cUS President Donald Trump has come with a \u200cfriendship that has never existed before between an Israeli prime minister and an American president. And it is doubtful we will ever have such a friendly president again,\u201d Netanyahu said in a televised appearance late on Sunday night. \u201cHe has another two years, and…<\/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-3327","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\/3327","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=3327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3327\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}