Trump and Netanyahu have ‘hard feelings’ as GOP debates escalation vs. diplomacy on Iran: Byron York

Washington Examiner chief political correspondent Byron York highlighted division over whether to escalate military action against Iran or pursue a diplomatic solution.“There is a debate between the ‘finish it off’ crowd, who wants more major combat operations for some period of time to finish the conflict, and the ‘let the sanctions, let the blockade work’ crowd, which is saying that the economic measures and military measures the United States has taken are working very, very well on Iran, and they’ll eventually come to heel,” York said Wednesday on Fox Business’s Kudlow.York said tensions have also increased between President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over how the war has unfolded. “As far as Netanyahu is concerned, there is some hard feelings, certainly, about the role that Netanyahu has played in this,” York said. Trump announced on Nov. 3 that the U.S. will end its annual aid to Israel by the end of the year, although he and Netanyahu stated it was mutually agreed upon.BYRON YORK: TRUMP AND NETANYAHU, AGAINWhile the decision to go to war was “100% Donald Trump’s,” York said Netanyahu was the one to pitch the war efforts in the situation room, even advocating regime change and plotting over potential successors.“Every conflict you hear between the president and Netanyahu seemingly is along the lines of Netanyahu urging more force and the president urging more caution,” York said. “So yeah, there’s some hard feelings about that going on.”