US President Donald Trump has been increasing pressure on Israel over recent days, an anonymous source told The Washington Post on Monday.

“Trump has been letting Israel know ‘we will abandon you if you do not end this war,’” the source added, speaking on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the press.

The increase in pressure from Trump came after Israel called up tens of thousands of reservists and ramped up Gaza bombings, the Washington Post added.

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    You mean the guy who said he supported relocating Gazans and building a resort?

    Man this propaganda cycle is getting weird.

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      You should never trust anything coming out of Trump’s mouth and only look at his actions. Actually, that counts for all politicians.

      In this case, what is remarkable is that Trump did not visit Israel during his Middle East tour, which is basically unheard of for an American president.

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      and building a resort?

      trump needs personally bought off and everytime someone does he thinks every prior bribe suddenly wasn’t enough.

      He’s 100% looking at what he just got in bribes from other ME countries and re-evaluating what his support of Israel should be worth.

      Israel might have had blackmail on him, but he’s at the stage where nothing can really change anyone’s minds. If it comes out there’s a tape of 20 9 years old peeing on him while he wears an Obama mask; they’ll claim he just cured racism or some shit.

      Hell, there’s a good chance less support if Israel was some of the strings of his recent bribes even.

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        comes out there’s a tape of 20 9 years old peeing on him while he wears an Obama mask;

        The Russians had that over him in 2016. Between then and now, AI videos have been invented and Trump was convicted of a crime without any negative effects. Blackmail doesn’t work on him anymore, just bribery.

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        Israel might have had blackmail on him, but he’s at the stage where nothing can really change anyone’s minds. If it comes out there’s a tape of 20 9 years old peeing on him while he wears an Obama mask; they’ll claim he just cured racism or some shit.

        He’d blame it on Biden.

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      To be honest, it wouldn’t surprise me if this is meant to be interpreted as “You’re taking too long to finish.”

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        I didn’t even think it could mean anything other than that until I started reading the comments. Coming from Trump this certainly reads more like a “finish them!” than a “leave them alone!”