The U.S.-Israel Friendship Is Not New—Nor Are Spats Between Their Leaders

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The U.S. government was so frustrated with Israel that a top American official openly questioned the Israeli prime minister’s mental state.

This was the case earlier this month, when President Donald Trump reportedly told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that he was “f—ing crazy,” amid concerns that Israel’s strikes in Lebanon could scuttle a peace deal with Iran.

Frederic J. Frommer is a sports and politics historian who has written for the Washington Post, the New York Times, The Atlantic, and other national publications. He is working on a book on baseball in the 1970s.