“If Israel can’t do the job without killing everyone else, Syria should do the job,” said US President Donald Trump in a bilateral meeting with the Emir of the State of Qatar on Tuesday.
Trump says he considers the Lebanon war a minor one, and an arena in which Syria can take on Hezbollah in partnership with the United States if Israel under Netanyahu cannot be reigned in.
When asked if he was frustrated with Netanyahu, he responded, “No, we have a great relationship.”
The president continued, saying, “I didn’t like that he did an attack [over] a very minor little thing with some drones. I saw that attack, I saw where that bomb went. That was a vicious… that was too much. You can do too much also. But we’ve had a very effective relationship.
“Without the United States, there would be no Israel. Without me, there would be no Israel – because no other president was willing to do what I did. I had a great relationship with Bibi, but now Bibi has to be more responsible with respect to Lebanon.”
This is a developing story.
