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“Gaza is our show”: U.S. pushes its plan over Netanyahu’s objections
Barak Ravid
January 17, 2026

President Trump’s advisers have little patience for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s objections as they push ahead with “phase two” of the Gaza peace plan. “This is our show, not his show. We managed to do things in Gaza in recent months nobody thought was possible, and we are going to continue moving,” a senior U.S. official told Axios, referring to Netanyahu. Netanyahu released an unusually pointed statement objecting to the “executive board” for Gaza, which the White House named on Friday. Th committee, which reports to the Trump-led Board of Peace, includes the foreign minister of Turkey and a senior Qatari official, despite Netanyahu’s insistence that those countries have no role in governing Gaza. READ MORE