When an Ally Becomes a Liability By Alon Ben-Meir Copyright © 2026 IPS-Inter Press Service. All rights reserved. -

When an Ally Becomes a Liability By Alon Ben-Meir NEW YORK, Jul 3 2026 (IPS) - For a generation, no foreign leader bet more heavily on a single American president than Benjamin Netanyahu bet on Donald Trump. Trump moved the US embassy to Jerusalem, tore up the 2015 nuclear accord with Iran, recognized Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights, and in February 2026 joined Israel in the opening strikes of a war against Iran that Netanyahu had spent three decades urging Washington to wage. The partnership looked unbreakable. It was, in fact, conditional—and the condition was that their interests never diverge. In June 2026 they diverged completely, and the rupture has exposed a truth Netanyahu has spent his career denying: when Israeli security and the prime minister’s political survival point in opposite directions, he chooses himself. https://www.ipsnews.net/2026/07/when-an-ally-becomes-a-liability/ Copyright © 2026 IPS-Inter Press Service. All rights reserved. -