What discussions were had and decisions made as the two leaders spent hour after hour together over the course of four days?
There was no typical Oval Office press availability.
There was no splashy East Room press conference.
So, reporters – both American and Israeli – have had precious little to go on, and speculation has been rampant.
But ALL ISRAEL NEWS was able to sit down for an hour with Mike Huckabee, the U.S. ambassador to Israel, to get some of the inside story and his assessment of the week’s high-level and high-stakes meetings.
My wife, Lynn, and I met with the ambassador at the J.W. Marriott Hotel, a block from the White House.
Over the next few days, we’ll report on what Huckabee told us
One of the most interesting things Huckabee told us was that he believes President Trump is leading a scale of tectonic change and transformation of “biblical proportion” in the Middle East, globally, and here at home.
Bombing Iran’s nuclear sites, when few thought Trump would, was a big part of the change.
But Huckabee also described how the President has been keeping his campaign promises to revive the economy, “get the border under control,” “stop this DEI nonsense,” “stop the transgender nonsense,” and make sure “little girls are going to be able to play their sports and not go into a locker room and see some teenage boy dressing in front of them,” to name just a few.
The ambassador pulled back the curtain for us and gave us a sense of how dramatic and historic Trump’s conversations with Netanyahu have been.
He said the two leaders were carefully assessing the success of their joint military operations against Iran’s nuclear and ballistic missile threats.
He said they were also developing strategies for reshaping the modern Middle East.
“It’s been an incredible week, I would say, for both the president and the prime minister,” Huckabee told us.
“It’s been a great week for America and a great week for Israel. I don't think the bonds have ever been tighter.”
“It's an extraordinary relationship that I think was bonded even stronger by the events of the past month.”
Trump’s point man for the U.S.-Israeli alliance described sitting with Trump and Netanyahu over dinner this week, discussing the implications of Trump’s decision to strike and the overwhelming success of the attacks in neutralizing the Iranian threat.
Huckabee then went further.
“What President Trump did was deliver a message to our friends,” he told us.
“And not just to Israel. This was a message he sent to the Saudis, to the Emiratis, to Japan and Taiwan – a message he sent to the European nations, our allies all around the world.”
The message is this: “If somebody is out there trying to kill you and you're our ally, trust us. We're not going to leave you by yourself.”
“So, the message sent to our friends was: trust us. But there was another message – a message that was delivered to Iran, but it was also delivered to Russia, to China, to North Korea.”
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