Report: US reassessing relationship with Israel under ‘America First’ policy

The United States no longer views Israel as an exceptional ally exempt from the Trump administration’s “America First” foreign policy approach, according to a report published by Politico. The publication, citing unnamed sources, said the administration is increasingly applying the same strategic principles to Israel that it applies to other US allies. An unnamed Israeli political adviser told Politico that Israel had assumed it would remain exempt from the “America First” doctrine. “We naively gambled on being exempt from the ‘America First’ principle,” the adviser said. “But this couldn’t last. We couldn’t remain an exception to all US foreign policy decisions for four years.” According to the report, US Vice President J.D. Vance has emerged as one of the administration’s […]