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\u003cp\u003eThis year marks the 70\u003csup\u003eth\u003c/sup\u003e anniversary of Israel’s war of independence against Arab enemies determined to crush it at birth. And it was 70 years ago in May that President Harry Truman extended recognition to the Jewish state, rejecting advice from his Secretary of State, George Marshall, but accepting the majority vote of the new United Nations organization in favour of partition.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis new year is also, of course, the second year of Trump, and the tenth of Netanyahu (in the latter’s second period as Prime Minister of Israel). The illiberal distortion of the original basis US-Israel alliance, and Trump’s more generally cartoonish Middle East policy, are far from the most dangerous developments in the bewildering months since Trump took office. Yet they deserve attention as a melancholy milestone marking how far the United States and Israel have strayed from the temper and idealism that bound them together in 1948.\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003ca href=\u0022https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/.premium-the-decline-and-fall-of-u-s-israeli-idealism-from-truman-to-trump-1.5770550\u0022\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRead the full article at Haaretz.\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\n \u003c/p\u003e","className":"richtext reading--content font-secondary"}), document.getElementById("react_cS3WEF0rEUuUq9d5v4iA"))});
This year Israel marks its 70th anniversary. But, punctuated by Trump’s cartoonish Middle East policy, it\u0027s a melancholy milestone for America-Israel relations, marking the deterioration of the ethics and ideals that once bound them together.
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