Trump and Netanyahu: The odd couple

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

56% : Nevertheless, Americans may be witnessing a historic inflection point in the decades-long power of Israel-first Zionist influence over American political life.
52% : Trump, however, proved far more susceptible to the influence of his Israel-first donors and to Netanyahu's chicanery.
51% : They feel it every time they fuel their cars, pay inflated prices for goods, or watch Congress cut healthcare or financial student aid for Americans in order to finance another military aid package for Israel.
51% : And when the history of this era is written, this odd couple may be remembered for ushering in the sunset of Israel-first Zionist dominance over the U.S. government.
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50% : In this case, Israel may be unique among nations: it derives strategic advantage not from a stable and prosperous region, but from entropy, and has built a regional doctrine whose success depends on propagating chaos.
50% : They are also paying what amounts to an Israeli surcharge tax at the pump.
47% : But nuclear-armed Israel, which never signed the Non-Proliferation Treaty that Iran did, has different goals entirely.
45% : Successive administrations, despite their deference to Israel, stopped short of falling for the scheme.
44% : He had since watched in silence as Israel systematically dismantled every commitment it had made.
43% : For Israel, a negotiated agreement between the U.S. and Iran, may be far less desirable than the continuation of regional turmoil.
40% : One day after reaching the agreement, Israel resumed strikes on South Lebanon and said it would neither withdraw nor allow Lebanese civilians back to their homes in the south.
40% : Gaza is another front in Israel's endless wars.
39% : From growing dissent within the Democratic Party -- and among Republican influencers -- to deepening unease across the Washington Beltway, genuine cracks are appearing in a system that for generations treated Israel as a sacred cow.
38% : It took little time after Trump's statement for Israel's defense minister to announce that military operations "will continue under all circumstances."
36% : It is clear the political landscape is shifting, and the assumptions that long governed Washington's relationship with Israel no longer appear as immutable as they once did.
35% : "Hence, no amount of presidential bravado or social-media posturing can obscure what has become undeniable: under Donald Trump, American foreign policy has served Netanyahu's Israel-first agenda, not America's.
29% : Again and again, Netanyahu acts, and Trump adjusts." For years, Netanyahu worked relentlessly to pull the U. S. into another made-for-Israel war, this time against Iran.
23% : "Americans are not only financing Israel's wars through tax dollars and weapons transfers.
21% : True to that pledge, Israel launched fresh attacks on hospitals and villages in southern Lebanon, killing and wounding civilians despite the so-called Trump's war cessation.

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