1 August 2026
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Trump Meets with Zelenskyy and Netanyahu Amid Memorial for Senator Lindsey Graham

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17 sources across 13 countries · 2 state-linked

Who reported this

  • Haaretz Israel · Left · Schocken family and M. DuMont Schauberg
  • The Times of Israel Israel · Centre · Seth Klarman (majority backer)
  • The Jerusalem Post Israel · Centre-right · Mirkaei Tikshoret (Eli Azur)
  • Der Spiegel Germany · Centre-left · ~50% staff-owned
  • Frankfurter Allgemeine Germany · Centre-right · FAZIT-Stiftung (foundation)
  • Al-Monitor United States · Centre · Jamal Daniel
  • Bloomberg United States · Centre · Bloomberg L.P. (Michael Bloomberg)
  • elDiarioAR Argentina · Centre-left · Newsroom-majority owned, membership funded
  • CNN Brasil Brazil · Centre · Rubens Menin (MRV)
  • Le Monde France · Centre-left · Fonds pour l'independance de la presse
  • ANSA Italy · Centre · Publisher cooperative
  • Asahi Shimbun Japan · Centre-left · Asahi Shimbun Company (family and employee held)
  • Rappler Philippines · Centre-left · Rappler Inc, staff-held
  • Al Jazeera Qatar · Centre-left · State-affiliated · Qatari government funded
  • The Straits Times Singapore · Centre-right · State-affiliated · SPH Media Trust; management shares under the NPPA
  • Taipei Times Taiwan · Centre-left · Liberty Times Group
  • The Guardian United Kingdom · Centre-left · Scott Trust Limited

What the colours mean

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  • Centre-left
  • Centre
  • Centre-right
  • Right
  • Hatched: the outlet is state-affiliated or state-controlled

Lean is where the outlet sits in its OWN country's politics, never on one global scale.

Political lean is comparable inside one country and not across them, which is why the bar groups by country first. Publicly funded broadcasters are not marked as state-linked.

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US President Donald Trump held separate closed-door meetings at the White House with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday. The visits coincided with a memorial service in Washington for Republican Senator Lindsey Graham, who died on July 11 at age 71. Both Trump and the visiting leaders described their respective meetings as positive.

During his meeting with Trump, President Zelenskyy discussed the revitalization of diplomatic processes to end the war with Russia and secured an agreement for Ukraine to manufacture its own Patriot missile interceptors. Zelenskyy stated that Trump agreed to grant the necessary licenses for co-production, a move intended to bolster Ukraine's defenses against Russian ballistic missiles. Following his White House visit, Zelenskyy met with US senators and representatives from Lockheed Martin.

Prime Minister Netanyahu's meeting with Trump focused on regional security, the conflict with Iran, and a framework agreement regarding Lebanon. Sources indicate that Netanyahu sought to repair strained relations with the US president and secure continued support for the war against Iran. While both leaders described the talks as excellent or productive, some reports noted prior friction over how intelligence on Iranian nuclear sites was handled.

At Senator Graham's funeral, Trump eulogized the late senator as a respected statesman and an unflinching foreign policy hawk. Zelenskyy and Netanyahu also attended the service, where they spoke and shook hands for the first time in three years. However, reports indicate that the two leaders did not hold a formal meeting during their visit, with some sources stating that Netanyahu's office rebuffed a request to meet.

In the US Senate, lawmakers voted 86-to-12 to advance the Lindsey O Graham Sanctioning Russia and Iran Act of 2026. While the bill received broad bipartisan support as a tribute to Graham, some Democratic senators expressed opposition due to provisions that would grant President Trump expansive new tariff powers.

Additionally, the US Senate voted 51-to-47 to confirm Jay Clayton as director of national intelligence, replacing Tulsi Gabbard.

How each side framed it

Centre-left
Framed the events by highlighting previous tensions between Trump and Zelenskyy, skepticism regarding Trump's reliability as a negotiator, and concerns over unchecked presidential tariff powers in the sanctions bill.
Centre
Focused on the strategic ambiguity of the diplomatic meetings and the objective details of the legislative and confirmation votes.
Centre-right
Emphasized the importance of the US-Israel alliance and framed the Washington visit as a competition between Israeli political leaders to prove their influence with Trump.

Sources

Faithfulness score: 1.00 (fraction of claims supported by the sources, self-judged).