On regional tour that skipped Israel, US president says he 'didn't ask' Jerusalem before lifting Syria sanctions, the latest ...

For decades, Israel has leveraged its special relationship with the United States to serve as a gatekeeper to Washington.

This is what Trump wants,” said Eytan Gilboa, an expert on U.S.-Israeli relations at Israel’s Bar-Ilan and Reichman universities. Instead, the war is intensifying. “Netanyahu is coming ...