WASHINGTON (Dispatches) -- Western media have renewed efforts to portray Washington as “frustrated” with Israel, despite continued U.S. support for the genocide in Gaza and other violent Israeli campaigns across West Asia. 
From October 2023 to September 2025, at least 46 reports have been published in Western media describing former U.S. president Joe Biden and his successor, Donald Trump, as being “frustrated” with Israel’s actions.
The latest report, published by POLITICO, follows an illegal and unprecedented Israeli strike in Qatar, which targeted Hamas leaders while they were meeting to discuss a U.S. ceasefire proposal in Doha. 
“The administration’s frustrations with Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu have deepened since the Israeli strike on Tuesday,” the DC-based publication reported.
“Every time they’re making progress, it seems like he bombs someone. That’s why the president and his aides are so frustrated with Netanyahu,” a source close to the president’s national security team told the outlet.
In May, Israeli journalist and former Unit 8200 member Barak Ravid reported in Axios that Trump was “frustrated” with Israel’s war on Gaza and was “upset” by pictures of starving Palestinian children.
Other reports since then have kept alive allegations that Trump wants Israel to “wrap up” the war. Meanwhile, the U.S. continues to arm Israel and replenish its stockpiles as it launches daily attacks in Gaza, the West Bank, Lebanon, Syria, and Yemen. 
Hebrew media confirmed in June that Trump pretended to be against an attack on Iran while secretly greenlighting Israel’s campaign. 
During Biden’s term, the former president was reported to have been “angry” or “frustrated” with Benjamin Netanyahu over a dozen times.
Before Israel entered south Gaza’s Rafah in May last year, Biden was said to be “issuing an ultimatum” to Netanyahu and warning him that he would not support the assault, calling Rafah a “red line.”
Despite a limited freeze on some arms shipments, which was later unfrozen, the weapons continued to flow, and the Israeli army completely destroyed Rafah. 
On 20 August, Bloomberg cited budget documents revealing that the Pentagon was seeking over $3.5 billion to replenish weapons and defense systems used to protect Israel. 
In late June, the U.S. approved a $510 million arms deal for Israel. After the attack on Doha, Trump assured Qatar that such a thing would not happen again. 
He publicly denounced the attack and said it “did not serve U.S. or Israeli interests.” Despite this, Israeli officials came out afterwards and threatened to hit the Persian Gulf state again. 
Hebrew reports have said that the U.S. was informed ahead of time and gave the green light for the attack.