The meeting today (Monday) at the White House between U.S. President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu may boil down to a decisive binary choice: accept Trump’s plan to end the war in Gaza, or face a public split with the United States and deepen Israel’s international isolation, according to the American site “Axios” citing aides to President Trump.

This meeting comes at a time when Trump, for the first time since returning to the White House, appears ready to break away from Netanyahu on the Gaza issue, pressuring him to achieve peace.

Trump confirmed in an interview with “Axios” last Sunday that his Gaza plan is in its final stages and that Netanyahu agrees to it, but the Israeli Prime Minister’s public statements were more ambiguous. The meeting will include a lunch and a press briefing, with Trump hoping to announce a deal immediately after.

“Axios” quoted a Trump team adviser saying: “The Arab countries have agreed 100% to Trump’s plan to end the war, and now we are waiting for the President to work his magic with Netanyahu,” adding that the White House sees Netanyahu’s rejection of the deal as making him responsible for the continuation of the war “which allows Hamas to continue and offers nothing to Palestinians suffering from huge humanitarian needs, and people will continue to starve. We hope to reach that.”

Trump had not publicly blamed Netanyahu before for prolonging the war with Hamas or failing to free the remaining hostages, but if Netanyahu refuses this time, some of Trump’s aides believe he may turn against him. Support for Israel and the war in Gaza has dropped to record lows, including within the White House and the MAGA movement generally.

An administrative official familiar with the peace talks said, “Everyone – and I mean everyone – is frustrated with Netanyahu.”

The Gaza peace process is considered a test of Trump’s global credibility, according to some of his advisers, who confirmed that everything Trump wants to achieve in the Middle East will be blocked until he convinces Netanyahu to end the war.

In an attempt to bridge remaining gaps between the U.S. and Israel over the 21-point peace plan, White House envoy Steve Witkoff and Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner met Netanyahu in New York for several hours on Sunday.

A Trump adviser described Witkoff and Kushner as “losing patience” with Netanyahu, noting that “Steve was dealing with Israel while Jared was dealing with Arab countries, but now they are at the end of their rope with Israel.”

He added that the latest peace initiative paradoxically arose from a failed Israeli attempt to assassinate Hamas leaders with a controversial missile strike in Qatar, saying: “When Netanyahu sent those missiles to Qatar, he united the Arab countries; they became one, speaking with one voice… It was a cumulative effect, and for the first time, we got a truly cohesive Arab world.”

Some of Trump’s advisers told that Netanyahu “is manipulating him,” while others see his disruptive decisions, such as the strike in Qatar, as primarily aimed at his political survival. A senior White House official said, “He is definitely very worried about his trial,” adding this may explain his aggression, describing it as “an invasion and bombing of every country on the map.”

U.S. and Israeli officials believe Netanyahu will now have to choose between Trump’s desire to end the war and his extremist allies who pressure him to continue fighting, whom he has repeatedly sided with.

A contributing factor to Trump’s world frustration with Netanyahu is his tendency to interfere in U.S. domestic politics. Last Friday during the United Nations, Netanyahu met with friendly American social media influencers, mostly conservative Trump supporters, asking for their help to “fight” online for Israel.

Netanyahu said, “We must fight with weapons suitable for the battlefield, most importantly on social media,” referring to “X” and “TikTok.”

At the meeting, he attacked what he called “the woke right – or the woke Reich,” saying they are “crazy, crazy,” and clashed especially with Tucker Carlson, who has become more critical of Israel.

In interviews this month with “Axios,” Trump’s advisers expressed astonishment at Netanyahu’s strange obsession with political discourse online in the U.S. A White House official said, “We can’t understand what the man is doing, focus on Israel, stop bringing influencers here to be your propaganda, it doesn’t help you, it doesn’t help Israel, and certainly doesn’t help us get a peace deal.”