President Donald Trump, meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at Mar-a-Lago, issued stark warnings to both Iran and Hamas.

Trump played down reports of tensions with Netanyahu, saying the PM can be ‘difficult’ but Israel ‘might not exist’ without his leadership.

The persistence of the slogan “Netanyahu funded Hamas” says less about what actually happened than about how responsibility is being contested in Israeli politics. In an election-bound atmosphere, reducing a long-running policy into a personal accusation offers simplicity and a convenient target. It also obscures the deeper failure.

Netanyahu announced that Israel was awarding the US leader its highest civilian honor – the first time it has gone to a non-Israeli citizen