Israel is no longer getting any special exemption under the US Trump administration’s “America First” foreign policy. The US outlet Politico reported that Washington has now begun applying to Israel the same strategic policy it uses with all its other allies.
For a long time Israel had believed it might remain outside this policy. An Israeli political adviser, speaking on condition of anonymity, told Politico: “We foolishly bet that we would get a pass from the ‘America First’ policy. But this cannot go on. We cannot remain an exception to all US foreign policy for four years.”
According to the report, Vice President JD Vance has emerged as one of the strongest backers of this change in US policy, and has sharply and directly criticised the Israeli leadership.
Vance has told Israeli officials to remember that the United States is Israel’s “only strong ally,” and has warned against assuming that Washington’s support is permanent or guaranteed.
High-level contact and relations between the two governments have also fallen sharply. Politico reported that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited Washington five times in 2025 but has gone there only once, in February 2026.
A source familiar with the matter said another Netanyahu visit to the White House was not under consideration at present, and that direct contact between the two governments had greatly diminished.
The source warned: “The worst is yet to come.”
Shortly before this report, another US outlet, Axios, reported that in a phone call on 2 June, President Donald Trump had sharply criticised Netanyahu. Trump was so annoyed by Netanyahu’s Middle East policy moves that he called the Israeli prime minister “crazy,” the report said.
According to the report, Trump later admitted that during that conversation he had called Netanyahu a “damned madman.”
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