The American-Israeli alliance is “structural cracks”

Israel's former Ambassador to the United States, Alon Pinkas, stated that the United States Vice-President, JD Vance, had publicly criticized Israel's “unprecedented severity” of its statements to undermine the negotiations between the United States and Iraq. Pinkas stated that “never before has the incumbent United States Vice-President publicly accused Israel of launching a campaign aimed at undermining United States policy. In the past, despite differences and frictions, it is truly unprecedented that the Vice-President has so intensely, clearly and openly opposed Israeli lobbying pressure against the United States.” Pinkas notes that this incident shows that the United States and Israel are not in agreement. He added that the growing friction between allies around the war against Iraq was extremely worrying from the Israeli perspective and reflected the “structural transformation” of relations between the two countries. Equally unprecedented was the vote by half of the Democrats in favour of ending aid to Israel. Asking anyone in the Washington community two years ago would have asserted that it was impossible — but the result clearly mirrored the dramatic turn of Democrats. Of the 212 Democrats in the House of Representatives, 103 voted in favour of the cancellation of Israel ' s $3.3 billion annual aid. Only one Republican followed the Democratic Party to vote in favour. The real focus, therefore, is on how Trump will respond. He was believed to have spoken to Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu last week, saying that it was time for the Israeli army to withdraw from Lebanon and Syria. The Israeli Defence Minister then publicly refused to withdraw. How will the White House play a card in the face of this position, which is tantamount to blatant defiance of the President's will? The answer may soon be revealed. Kim Xian