'People are starving': How Trump lost patience with Israel

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Politics, Unknown, Daily News, News

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🗓️ 21 May 2025

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

As Donald Trump took a tour of the Middle East last week, there was one notable omission from his itinerary - a trip to see America's long term political ally in the region, Israel. Instead, the US President voiced concern for the ongoing famine in Gaza. And now, after days of speculation, Benjamin Netanyahu has been forced to dismiss talk of a rift with Israel's military and diplomatic patron. But what caused Trump's patience to snap, and will it change anything for starving Gazans?

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Guest: Gabrielle Weiniger, Tel Aviv-based correspondent for The Times

Amal Helles, Reporter at The Times

Host: Manveen Rana

Producer: Rosie Stopher

Further reading: Leaked map shows Israeli proposal to force Gazans into strips of land / Here in Gaza, babies are skin and bone. I fear mine will be too

Further listening: Trump’s Gaza Bombshell

Clips: Sky News, UK Parliament, Al Jazeera, TRT World

Photo: A Gaza soup kitchen, via Getty images

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0:00.0	From The Times and the Sunday Times, this is the story. I'm Manvino.
0:07.0	When Donald Trump won the election, many believed it was just as much a victory for Benjamin Netanyahu in Israel.
0:20.0	A view that gained traction when Netanyahu became the first foreign leader to visit the White
0:26.8	House after the inauguration.
0:29.2	We are a friend of Israel, as you know.
0:31.3	I would say that I'm by far the best president that Israel has ever even thought of seeing.
0:37.9	And it's an honor to be so.
0:40.5	The Netanyahu government couldn't have been more delighted.
0:45.1	And President Trump went even further than they could have hoped
0:48.7	when he suggested that he'd take over the Gaza Strip.
0:52.6	The U.S. will take over the Gaza Strip, and we will do a job with it, too.
0:57.9	We'll own it.
0:58.8	I don't want to be a wise guy, but the Riviera of the Middle East, this could be something
1:02.9	that could be so magnificent.
1:07.0	But something has changed.
1:10.2	The tone has shifted.
1:12.9	Over the past week, as President Trump toured the Middle East, glad-handing Arab leaders and doing deals worth billions of dollars, Israel wasn't on the itinerary.
1:25.4	Instead, standing in a grand hall in Abu Dhabi last Friday,
1:30.3	it was the plight of the people of Gaza that seemed to have gripped his attention.
1:35.2	We're looking at Gaza, and we've got to get that taken care of.
1:38.7	A lot of people are starving.
1:40.4	A lot of people are, there's a lot of bad things going on.
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