Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth quietly visited Israel on Monday and met with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, according to a senior U.S. military official who spoke to CBS News under condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly.
A second source involved in the matter in Israel confirmed Tuesday morning that Netanyahu met Hegseth.
The unannounced visit came just over a week before Netanyahu’s party faces elections. It also comes after President Trump floated resuming military operations against Iran following next month’s U.S. midterm elections.
Operation Iranian Freedom IV.2 is coming soon. The re-escalation of our fourth failed, ongoing, unprovoked, unjustified, and anti-Constitutional war for Israel against Iran will very obviously fail. We will once again be humiliated by our chosen adversaries. Our MOAB attacks will fail; our two options for Iran remain go nuclear or go home, but Donald Trump and his elite billionaire pals like doing disgusting things to children, so he must do as ordered by his Zionist masters.