Friendship, complicity, and... pressure? The White House has published on its website a wide carousel of photos showing how the meeting between the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, and the US President, Donald Trump, unfolded.
Following the Israeli's notable speech last Friday at the United Nations General Assembly, the two leaders met on Monday in Washington, resulting in the 20-point peace agreement, for which a response from Hamas is still awaited.
The reception, the document signing, the conversations, the confidences, the press conference... Everything is reflected in the White House photos, but one stands out. It is the call that Netanyahu had to make during the meeting to apologize to the Qatari Prime Minister for the Israeli attack on his country in early September. In black and white and in color, Trump can be seen holding the landline phone while Netanyahu holds the receiver in one hand and a paper in the other. All this under the watchful eyes of Vice President J.D. Vance and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth. There is even a close-up of the 'premier', the phone off the hook, and Trump looking on with a serious expression.
Prior to this meeting, Trump had already made it clear on some occasions that Qatar was a US ally - as well as one of the countries monitoring dialogues to achieve peace in Gaza - and it seems he made this known during the Monday meeting. A picture is worth a thousand words.