Benjamin Netanyahu reportedly gave Donald Trump a “golden pager” throughout their assembly in Washington DC this week, in an obvious reference to Israel’s lethal assault in opposition to Hezbollah in Lebanon final 12 months.
In photographs circulating on-line, the golden pager might be seen mounted on a chunk of wooden, accompanied by a golden plaque that reads in black lettering: “To President Donald J. Trump, Our biggest buddy and biggest ally. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.”
Israeli media reported that the Israeli prime minister, who’s wished by the worldwide felony courtroom for conflict crimes, additionally gave the US president a daily pager.
The reward was reportedly a nod to Israel’s lethal operation final September in opposition to Hezbollah, throughout which hundreds of handheld pager beeper gadgets and walkie-talkies belonging to Hezbollah detonated concurrently throughout Lebanon.
The explosions killed not less than 37 folks, together with kids as younger as 9 years previous, and left hundreds wounded.
An Israeli official instructed the Related Press that upon receiving the golden pager from Netanyahu, Trump, responded: “That was a significant operation.”
In accordance with a photograph shared on Instagram by Yair Netanyahu, Netanyahu’s son, Trump gave Netanyahu a signed {photograph} of the 2 of them. Trump wrote on the picture: “To Bibi, An important chief!”
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Netanyahu met with Trump on Tuesday on a go to which was quickly overshadowed by Trump’s apparently off-the-cuff suggestion that the US would “take over” Gaza and resettle the Palestinian inhabitants elsewhere.
