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Activists protest near the US Capitol on July 24, 2024, in Washington, DC. Activists staged multiple demonstrations near the Capitol to protest Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's visit to Washington and Israel's war on Gaza. Alex Wong/ AFP

Americans are tiring of Israel. Will US policy follow?

While the US public has long been supportive of Israel, its genocide in Gaza appears to have had a big effect, with most young Americans now outright hostile towards it

Ramzy Ezzeldin Ramzy 09 September 2025
A woman cries while sitting on the rubble of her house, destroyed in an Israeli strike, in the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza Strip on March 18, 2025. Eyad BABA / AFP

Israel appears to end Gaza ceasefire with US backing

Netanyahu always said the truce was temporary and used the 'war pause' to grab more land in the West Bank and go after those in Israel who opposed the Kahanist war aims of his far-right coalition

Asaad Ghanem 18 March 2025
Andy Edwards

Netanyahu may cajole and send his wife, but Trump is no friend

The Israeli prime minister's interests are served by a US president who will acquiesce to his hard-right government's every whim, but in Donald Trump he does not have a nodding dog

Michael Horowitz 03 January 2025
Barbara Gibson

Like his predecessors, Trump will keep giving Israel the green light

The president-elect's upcoming Oval Office return is good news for Benjamin Netanyahu's far-right cabinet and bad news for Palestinians in Gaza under Israel's unrelenting air strikes

Majed Kayali 24 November 2024
Israeli soldiers with their Merkava tanks near Gaza. A range of regional powers all willing and able to intervene increases the risk of conflict in the Middle East. Getty Images

Armed to the teeth: how America has funded Israel’s wars

A long history of US military aid to Tel Aviv has created the regional military superpower we see today, but calls to condition or even withhold that support over Gaza may not be falling on deaf ears

Con Coughlin 30 July 2024
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses a joint meeting of Congress in the chamber of the House of Representatives at the US Capitol on July 24, 2024. Justin Sullivan / Getty Images

Kissing the ring: the delicate politics behind Netanyahu’s US visit

For the Israeli prime minister, this was a chance to 'play Churchill', but though he was applauded, that isn't what American legislators wanted to hear. Meanwhile, there was an important fence to mend

Michael Horowitz 27 July 2024
US President Joe Biden (L) with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Tel Aviv on 18 October 2023. AFP

History shows US-Israel relationship has survived worse

The very public disagreements between Washington and Tel Aviv over Gaza in recent weeks are both rare and telling, yet this transatlantic alliance has weathered far more severe storms

Aqeel Abbas 02 May 2024
US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin (L) and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu give a statement after their meeting at the Premier's office in Israel on April 12, 2021. (Getty)

Israel and Iran Are Pulling U.S. Toward Conflict

Israel and Iran aren’t yet on the verge of a major escalation or war, and continued progress on the Iran nuclear talks in Vienna would likely forestall one, if Israel judges that trying to undermine…

Daniel C. Kurtzer, Aaron David Miller, Steven N. Simon 30 April 2021
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People walk amid the destruction in Gaza City in the northern Gaza Strip on October 11, 2025, a day after a ceasefire took effect. AFP
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