Trump cut off contact with Netanyahu: Israeli media
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Sources say the US president seems to have distanced himself from the Israeli premier over "manipulation" claims.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/29815074

“Israel’s” Minister of Strategic Affairs, Ron Dermer, a close ally of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, reportedly spoke “with his usual arrogance” to senior Republican officials, detailing what US President Donald Trump “must do", according to Yanir Cozin, a diplomatic correspondent for Israeli Army Radio, who cited a senior Israeli official.

However, Dermer’s approach appears to have backfired. Trump’s inner circle reportedly told him that “Netanyahu is manipulating the American president,” a characterization that did not sit well with Trump.

The cited official noted that “Trump hates nothing more than appearing to be manipulated.”

  • infuziSporg [e/em/eir]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    4 days ago

    It’s the largest single lobby in US politics, largely for imperialist reasons, and it overlaps with many other powerful lobbies. Since 9/11, the oil industry amd the weapons industry and the fundamentalists have all coalesced around American-Israeli relations as a salient.

    There’s a bunch of very good reasons why it’s extremely rare for anyone in the last 50 years to have made it into state or national office on an explicitly pro-Palestine platform.