As a procession of senior US officials visited Israel this week, Benjamin Netanyahu endured an awkward moment. Standing alongside vice-president JD Vance, the Israeli prime minister was asked whether his nation had become a US client state.
“Hogwash,” Netanyahu retorted. “We have a partnership, an alliance.”
The exchange underlined the mood in Israel: Washington is now calling the shots, as Donald Trump steps up pressure on Netanyahu’s far-right government to stick with his fragile Gaza ceasefire deal — one Israel was reluctantly coerced into accepting.
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