The Israeli leader, who came to town for the late Sen. Lindsey Graham's funeral, will attend his first White House meeting in five months.
"The last time that Bibi was over here, he snuck in the back door, and they didn't have a press conference," remembers national defense analyst Bob Maginnis. "I suspect this one will be not that different."
This time, the prime minister reportedly took off for Washington without announcing his departure in advance for security reasons.
"Trump cannot afford to be seen as a lackey for the Israelis as he faces congressional elections this fall," Maginnis continues. "I suspect they'll try to keep it as low profile as possible."
Following his visit to Washington, Netanyahu will depart for New York to address the United Nations.
Washington Times columnist Robert Knight has no doubt that there will be protests "because there is rising antisemitism and there's rising anti-Israel sentiment."
"I hope nothing happens that's violent during the Israeli leader's visit to the United States," he tells AFN.
Retired Lt. Col. Jonathan Conricus, a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, served in the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) for 24 years as a combat commander in Lebanon and the Gaza Strip. He told "Washington Watch" on Monday that Trump and Netanyahu's political interests are connected, and they face similar election challenges.
"I think both leaders really want a foreign policy achievement to show their electorate that the decision to take on the evil Islamic Republic of Iran was a wise one and that it has paid off," he said.
He is unsure, however, if the two leaders are on the same page.
"I think that President Trump … would be totally satisfied with just winning the war and getting a good political diplomatic deal out of it with an open Strait of Hormuz and an improved diplomatic situation, whereas Netanyahu has been speaking a lot about total victory," Conricus noted.
From an Israeli perspective, he said the civilians there understand that as long as the Iranian regime exists, "we're going to continue to have trouble."
But he is sure that Netanyahu recognizes Trump's "more limited appetite."
He believes the two leaders should focus on the "bare basics" of at least ensuring that it will take the Iranians a long time before they can think of assembling a nuclear weapon.
