As President Donald Trump prepares for a high-stakes new meeting tied to the faltering Iran war, some of his biggest allies are warning that he may be walking into “a disaster” that could engulf his America First agenda, according to Politico.

Trump is scheduled to hold another White House meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as the joint U.S.-Israeli war against Iran continues to spiral into what critics describe as a prolonged quagmire. Because Netanyahu reportedly helped persuade Trump to attack Iran in the first place, despite skepticism from many White House officials, some of the president’s top MAGA allies now fear he could again be talked into a renewed and intensified military campaign, Politico reported Tuesday morning. That concern reflects a broader divide inside Trump’s coalition, where anti-interventionists are increasingly focused on whether the administration can avoid being pulled from limited engagement into a deeper, open-ended conflict.

“I think all of President Trump’s most ardent non-‘Israel First’ supporters are furious,” former White House chief strategist and MAGA podcaster Steve Bannon said. “Netanyahu has had twice as many visits to the White House in 18 months as Churchill had in all of World War II — with every one of them a disaster for America First.”

Cory Mills, executive director of The American Conservative magazine, said Netanyahu is likely to push for escalation during the meeting. “Netanyahu is going to argue for the essential logic of escalation, which — if Trump is not willing to give the [memorandum of understanding] a chance and if Trump is not willing to walk away from the conflict entirely without a resolution — then I think we probably will escalate, and that’s what we’ve been seeing these last couple of weeks,” Mills said. He also described the situation as “DEFCON 1.”

Politico said many of Trump’s anti-interventionist allies had hoped the “memorandum of understanding” deal reached a few weeks ago would mark the beginning of a path toward a permanent peace agreement. Instead, those allies are now “grappling with the possibility that Netanyahu” may persuade the president to enter “a new, more durable phase of war that could leave the U.S. embroiled in conflict in the Middle East for months, if not years.” For Trump, that would raise the stakes of a meeting that is already being watched as a test of whether his administration can balance pressure from Netanyahu with the president’s own public emphasis on avoiding prolonged foreign entanglements.

“Netanyahu is kind of a problem-maker at the moment, right? This war has consumed the last five and a half months or so. There’s not a clear solution to it,” one anonymous former official told Politico. “Trump probably, publicly or not, blames Netanyahu partially or associates him with a thing going badly. It’s not like it has to be his fault. It’s that he’s associated with it. And the president’s pissed off about it.”

Alex Gray, a former National Security Council chief of staff in Trump’s first term, said he wanted to see how openly Netanyahu pushes for deeper U.S. involvement. “I’m interested in seeing how forward-leaning Netanyahu is about wanting a U.S. engagement in that way. I mean, is that something he wants to do privately? Is that something he’s going to say publicly?” Gray said. “Netanyahu is going to push his agenda, which I don’t think in this instance necessarily is compatible with our interests, but I have no concern that Donald Trump is going to be manipulated by any leader into doing something that’s not compatible with America’s interest first.”