India, June 24 -- The decades-long alliance between the United States and Israel is facing its most public and volatile strain in recent memory, fueled by a series of expletive-laden exchanges between US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. New reporting and recent accounts from insiders paint a portrait of a relationship that has devolved into mutual resentment as the two leaders clash over the terms of a fragile Middle East ceasefire and the future of the regional security architecture.
At the centre of the discord is a fiery phone call reported in the latest chronicle of Trump's second term, "Regime Change." According to authors Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan, the US president reportedly blew up at th...