Trump and Netanyahu Plan to Discuss Iran, Hamas, and U.S. Tariffs on Israel
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is expected to meet with President Donald Trump at the Oval Office on Monday to discuss several key issues, including US tariffs on Israel, the Iranian threat, and the Gaza crisis. Regarding Iran, Trump called it the "obvious subject."
"Well, there's a lot of things going on with the Middle East right now that have to be silenced," he noted.
Similarly, Netanyahu also placed the Tehran regime as a main talking point.
"I intend to speak with President Trump about how to confront Iranian aggression — and to protect Israel's security and economic interests," the prime minister declared.
According to CBN News, the meeting is expected to address Iran's growing nuclear threat and its alleged support for Hamas, which is linked to the October 7 terror attacks on Israel in 2023.
"This is definitive proof of Iran's support for Hamas's plan to destroy Israel and for the October 7th massacre," Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz, who revealed intercepted Hamas internal documents, noted.
The meeting comes nearly a week after Trump announced a 17% tariff on goods imported from Israel on what he called "Liberation Day" on April 2. Other tariffs included a 10% baseline on all countries that took effect on April 5 and an additional 7% that was scheduled for April 9.
"The fear is that these tariffs will hurt exports of diamonds as well as high-tech or defense systems like drones. If our income were to be reduced as a result, this would be a problem," Alex Coman, a value-creation expert at the Holon Institute of Technology in Israel, told Fox News Digital.
"These tariffs came as a surprise. Prior to this decision, there were very few imposed, many products did not have them, and Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich eliminated those that existed," adding, "As such, I am very optimistic that these tariffs will be reduced."
Meanwhile, research conducted by Salo Aizenberg, a board member of the U.S.-based organization HonestReporting, found that over 3,400 previously reported deaths have been erased from Hamas' official lists.
Despite Hamas's assertion that women and children had accounted for 70% of casualties in Gaza, Aizenberg's examination of the organization's most recent casualty list, which was released in March 2025, indicates that this is not the case.
"Hamas's new March 2025 fatality list quietly drops 3,400 fully 'identified' deaths listed in its August and October 2024 reports – including 1,080 children. These 'deaths' never happened. The numbers were falsified — again," Aizenberg told the British newspaper, The Telegraph.
In a related report published by a former British paratrooper and author Andrew Fox Henry of the Jackson Society in December, Hamas included "rafts of errors" in its reported casualty figures.
"We knew there were rafts of errors in their reporting," Fox said. "There's a reasonable explanation in that their computer systems went down in November 2023, so it's been challenging for them to report accurately, but the lists are so unreliable that the world's media shouldn't be quoting them as reliable."
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Originally published April 07, 2025.
