Trump to get hero's welcome in Tel Aviv

Donald Trump will fly into Israel tomorrow on the day the remaining 20 surviving hostages are released by Hamas in Gaza. He will get a hero's welcome not just from the families of the hostages but probably from the whole of the Knesset which he will address. I wonder whteher this will please Benjamin Netanyahu. It was his promise and his reponsibility to get all the 250 hostages returned safely to Israel but it took the efforts of the United States, and in particular Donald Trump, to finally win the release of the lat 20. So the plaudits will go to Trump, not to Netanyahu. In fact when his name is mentioned in public he receives boos, not cheers. Tomorrow will be Trump's day - and of course the hostages - but not Netanyahu's. Of the 48 hostages still in Hamas hands, 26 are known to be dead and two more may be dead, although their life or death status has not been confirmed. Many of the other hostages died. So, although hopefully by tomorrow there will no longer be a hostage crisis, it will not be seen as a triump for the Israeli leader. Netanyahu depends for his survival as political leader on the success of the peace settlement devised by the Trump administration, and if things go wrong and he has to order Israeli troops back into Gaza to fight Hamas, then his political future will look even more tenuous. Meanwhile, he has to take second place as Trump receives the adulation of the Israeli people.