WATCH: Joel Rosenberg wonders why Trump will come to Middle East – but skip Israel – amid talks with Iran, truce with Houthis

Why is the most pro-Israel president in the history of the United States planning a trip to the Middle East next week, but not including a stop in Israel?

According to ALL ISRAEL NEWS Editor-in-Chief Joel Rosenberg, the move “doesn’t make sense.”

In a conversation with Senior Correspondent Tal Heinrich, Rosenberg questioned whether U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision might signal some distance between Washington and Jerusalem.

“If you're already in the neighborhood and you specifically choose not to come, I think you're sending a signal,” he said. “My instinct is there's trouble in River City, that there are disagreements going on between Netanyahu and Trump.”

Although Rosenberg admits he has no concrete proof of strained relations, he said he is concerned. And he is not alone. Many Israelis and Evangelicals are growing increasingly uneasy over a series of recent moves by the Trump administration in the region.

“I'm hearing a lot of angst – increasing anxiety from not only Israeli leaders, but Evangelical Christian leaders here in the United States,” Rosenberg said, speaking from a conservative conference in Florida.

One of the primary concerns is Trump’s aggressive push for ongoing negotiations with Iran – reportedly taking place weekly – instead of pursuing military action to counter Tehran’s nuclear ambitions.

“I don't know if Trump is just giving the Iranians an opportunity to reject true diplomacy, so that he can have an international reason to bomb the living daylight out of the Iranian nuclear facilities,” Rosenberg wondered.

“Evangelicals and other conservatives are going anxious that Trump maybe could get played by Iran,” he added, referring to Trump’s envoy for regional negotiations, Steve Witkoff.

While Rosenberg acknowledged that Witkoff is “very accomplished in many ways,” he questioned whether he’s taking on too much at once.

“Witkoff is trying to make peace between the Russians and the Ukrainians. That should be a job to itself. Get all the hostages out of Gaza and figure out how to rebuild Gaza. That should be a job to itself, in my view,” he explained. “I don't know if he's capable of doing all three at once. He could make a mistake, and we can't afford a mistake.”

Adding to tensions, just days after a Houthi missile from Yemen landed near Ben-Gurion International Airport, President Trump announced a “truce” with the Iranian-backed group. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu – possibly blindsided by the announcement – responded defiantly, stating that “Israel will defend itself by itself.”

Then came an exclusive Reuters report claiming that the U.S. is open to helping Saudi Arabia develop civilian nuclear facilities – reportedly not tied to a peace agreement with Israel.

“It’s just a report. You and I, Joel, know better than to believe every report,” Heinrich pointed out.

“True,” Rosenberg agreed, “but when Trump is not coming to Israel, all those individual reports look like potentially more.”

On a recent episode of THE ROSENBERG REPORT, Rosenberg raised the issue directly with Trump’s top regional diplomat, Ambassador Mike Huckabee, asking why the president is skipping Israel during this tour.

“Huckabee rightly notes that President Trump has already welcomed Bibi Netanyahu twice, not only to the White House, but to the Oval Office, to have very in-depth conversations on all the major issues and he said this is now a chance to go and meet with our Arab allies,” Rosenberg quoted Huckabee.

“I still don't buy it. Something is going on,” he continued.

“Unless it changes and there's a surprise visit, which I think is still possible – Trump loves surprises… But it feels to me like there is actually a rift of some kind, that Trump isn't getting from Netanyahu something that he wants.”

“The point being is there's no reason to come to the Middle East and not stop in Israel now,” Rosenberg stressed. “I have a great deal of trust in President Trump, but he is making me anxious. I'm not going to take the responsibility that I'm just somehow abandoning Trump and I don't trust him enough – there's lots of reasons to trust him. But he and his team are creating reasons to say, ‘What is going on here? This doesn't make sense.’”

Rosenberg then turned the question to Heinrich, who previously served as a spokesperson for Prime Minister Netanyahu during the war, asking for her take on the situation.

“It's so very difficult to read President Trump at this point, and not just on the Middle East. If it's the economy, if it's about certain appointments and choices that he made, his media statements… At the same time, he's not stopping Israel. He's not telling Israel, don't do this and don't do that,” Heinrich said.

“One thing that we learned is to judge what President Trump does by his actions,” she concluded.