Trump issued stern warning to Israel over Middle East peace deal

President Donald Trump issued a stern warning to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on October 4, according to a new report.

By then, Trump administration officials had struck a deal with other mediators from countries including Qatar, Egypt and Turkey – just days before the second anniversary of the start of the war between Israel and Hamas.

Trump minced no words in a call with Netanyahu: the deal would be announced and Netanyahu had no choice but to join, Time magazine reported Thursday.

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President Donald Trump issued a stern warning to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on October 4, according to a new report. (Saul Loeb/Pool/AFP via Getty Images)

“Bibi, you can’t fight the world,” Trump told Netanyahu, as he detailed their conversation in an interview with Time. “You can fight individual battles, but the world is against you.”

Even as Netanyahu resisted, Trump’s patience expired. Trump “launched into a crude monologue listing everything he had done for Israel as president: moving the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem, recognizing its sovereignty over the Golan Heights, negotiating the Abraham Accords that normalized relations between Israel and several Arab states, and even joining Israeli strikes against Iran in June,” according to Time.

As a result, Trump indicated that he would no longer support Netanyahu if the prime minister did not accept the peace deal, Time reported.

“It was a very blunt, direct statement to Bibi… that he has no tolerance for anything other than that,” Trump’s special Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff told the outlet.

Netanyahu ultimately accepted the deal, which includes a provision requiring Israeli forces to withdraw their troops and a complete disarmament of Hamas.

The agreement also required Hamas to return hostages still in captivity within 72 hours of signing the agreement. Hamas has not yet returned some of the remains of deceased Israeli hostages.

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President Donald Trump hailed the peace deal as a victory and visited Israeli lawmakers in the Knesset and other Egyptian officials. (Chen Mengtong/China News Service/VCG via Getty Images)

Netanyahu’s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Fox News Digital.

Israel began facing increased pressure and frustration from the Trump administration after carrying out strikes against Hamas leaders in Doha, Qatar, in September. Qatar is a US ally and the attack violated the country’s sovereignty – prompting Trump to say at the time that he was “very unhappy with all aspects” of the situation.

But Trump used the attack as leverage to convince regional leaders to unite and negotiate an end to the conflict.

“It’s one of the things that brought us all together,” Trump told Time. “It was so weird that everyone did what they had to do. If you took that away, maybe we wouldn’t be talking about this topic right now.”

Trump hailed the peace deal as a victory and visited Israeli lawmakers in the Knesset and other Egyptian officials to recognize the finalization of the first phase of the deal.

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President Donald Trump speaks after signing a Gaza ceasefire agreement October 13, 2025, in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt. (Getty)

“We finally have peace in the Middle East, and it’s a very simple expression, peace in the Middle East,” Trump told reporters in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt.

“We’ve been hearing it for many years, but no one thought it would ever get there,” Trump said. “And now here we are.”

Today, Trump indicated that he plans to end the war between Russia and Ukraine, and indicated that his administration will build on the momentum provided by the Middle East peace agreement to end the conflict in Europe.

Trump met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Friday and NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte on Wednesday to discuss the conflict.