President Donald Trump will meet this afternoon at the White House with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Washington to discuss a host of pressing Middle East issues.
Netanyahu is the first foreign head of state to be received by Trump in his second term in office.
They meet in the third week of a six-week cease-fire between Israel and the Hamas terrorist group featuring swaps of handfuls of Israeli hostages for hundreds of Palestinians held in Israeli prisons, many of them terrorists serving life terms for murder.
Netanyahu will meet with Trump in the Oval Office at 4:05 p.m., followed by a larger meeting with top officials from both administrations, a press conference to follow, and a dinner at the White House….