A translation of "Jerusalem" dot com - Israeli opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu revealed that former US President Donald Trump agreed in 2020 that Israel annex about a third of the West Bank immediately, but he retracted it the day after the day this was put forward. The proposal, which was part of the "deal of the century" plan that was spirited.

In his new book, "Bibi - The Story of My Life," which was distributed on Friday, Netanyahu noted that he had agreed at the time to the property in which it was supposed to transfer about two-thirds of the West Bank lands to Palestinian control, according to what was stated on the website of the Hebrew newspaper, Haaretz.

Netanyahu indicated that he agreed to the plan prepared by Jared Kushner, Trump's advisor and son-in-law, assuming that the Palestinians would reject it anyway, indicating that he announced at that time in the media about his government's intention to annex lands from the West Bank, but the next day the White House issued a statement stating that the annexation Immediate is not on the agenda.

Netanyahu, who speculates that his rival, Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz, may have persuaded Trump to back down from the move, wrote that "to this day it is not clear the reason for the change... I fulfilled my part of the deal, but unfortunately the Americans did not do their part."

Netanyahu indicated in his book that how Trump was at the beginning of his presidency falling under the influence of a "mutual friend" caused the relationship between them to be badly reduced - and it seems that Netanyahu was referring to the billionaire World Jewish Congress president Ron Lauder, as Haaretz recalls -

According to the head of the Israeli opposition, that "common friend" convinced Trump of the possibility of a peace agreement between Israel and the Palestinians and that Netanyahu was an obstacle to that. According to him, Trump's son-in-law and close advisor Jared Kushner also tried to push in a similar direction and even suggested to Israel's ambassador to the States United Ron Dermer, that Israel freeze construction in the settlements for a few years.

Netanyahu stated that he had succeeded in changing Trump's view of the Palestinian leadership by showing him a video clip of Trump during his visit to Israel at the beginning of his term, in which President Mahmoud Abbas appears talking about peace in front of Western figures, and in an Arabic speech praising "terrorists", as he put it. .

In the book, Netanyahu also describes his ambiguous relationship with the president who preceded Trump, Barack Obama. According to Netanyahu, he urged Obama to order an American attack on Iranian nuclear facilities, and that this request was made during Obama's visit to Israel in 2013, and his words indicate that this was not The first request was not, and thus confirms the accusations of members of the Obama administration who previously claimed that Netanyahu tried to "involve" the United States in the war with Iran.

According to Netanyahu, Obama rejected the request on the grounds that everyone needed to do it differently.

The book also includes references to several Israeli officials. According to Netanyahu, Benny Gantz, as chief of staff for several years, opposed an attack plan on a large arms shipment from Iran to the Gaza Strip via Sudan. The attack was supposed to be carried out at Khartoum International Airport, and on Despite the support of the heads of the Air Force and the IDF's intelligence department, Chief of Staff Gantz "vehemently opposed" on the grounds that an operation of this magnitude could cause war and would therefore require the approval of the entire government. Netanyahu ruled out such a possibility, and received an opinion from Attorney General Yehuda Weinstein. That the procedure can be approved without convening members of the government to a meeting.

The attack on Khartoum was carried out by fighter planes that flew along the Red Sea, and it was successfully completed on October 23, 2012, and Netanyahu is the first official Israeli official to confirm its existence after a decade. According to him, after the attack, he delivered a personal message to the ruler of Sudan at the time, Omar. Al-Bashir, stating that if Iranian arms shipments through his territory do not end, "you are next in line (assassination)."

Netanyahu pointed out that twice, in 2010 and 2011, he tried to obtain approval to launch an attack against Iran, but he was shocked by the refusal of senior security officials, given that such an attack could spark a regional war and harm relations with the United States.

Netanyahu confirmed what was published in "Haaretz" years ago, that he proposed to the Obama administration a land exchange plan with Egypt that would have allowed the Palestinians to receive it, on the basis of more land in the Sinai in exchange for the Gaza Strip, and in return Israel could annex lands from the West Bank. But sources opposed the idea before any talks began.

In the context of Gaza, Netanyahu also confirmed for the first time that Israel had previously faced a depletion of Iron Dome interceptor stockpiles during the conflicts in Gaza, specifically in Operation Pillar of Defense in 2012, and this was a consideration in the decision to end the operation quickly, but two years later during Operation Protective Edge And thanks to the increase in production with American financial assistance, Israel already had a sufficient stockpile of interceptor missiles, confirming at the same time the news published at the time that the Americans had prevented the supply of Hellfire missiles to Israel.

Netanyahu also confirms in his book that he participated in negotiations with the Assad regime about the future of the Golan Heights, where the first initiative was mediated by Lauder during his first term in the nineties, and that Netanyahu suggested to Syrian President Hafez al-Assad that Israel withdraw from the Golan Heights, but the borders remain on the plateau and not on shores of the Sea of Galilee, but al-Assad rejected the offer under pressure from the Syrian army commander. The second initiative was Netanyahu’s own proposal that the Obama administration begin negotiations with Bashar al-Assad in the event that the process with the Palestinians faltered, and this did not materialize due to the outbreak of the civil war in Syria.

Netanyahu believes that he did not believe that the talks with Syria would lead to an agreement in any case, and that he mainly wanted to reduce the American pressure on him to concede to the Palestinians.