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Israel's special relationship with US 'seems to have melted into a pretty bad break-up'

Israel's special relationship with US 'seems to have melted into a pretty bad break-up'
France 24 Wednesday 17 June 2026, 18:52 UTC By FRANCE24 1 min read
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To display this content from YouTube, you must enable advertisement tracking and audience measurement. One of your browser extensions seems to be blocking the video player from loading. To watch this content, you may need to disable it on this site. Israel's special relationship with US 'seems to have melted into a pretty bad break-up' Middle East Issued on: Modified: Share Donald Trump said on Wednesday that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu could use a "softer touch" in the fight against Hezbollah militants in Lebanon, the U.S. president's latest public rebuke to his partner in the war on Iran. Reporting from Jerusalem, FRANCE 24's Noga Tarnopolsky explains that the Israeli-American 'special relationship' "seems to have melted into a pretty bad break-up over the last few days".
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