Israel Overrode Trump
A Catalog of the Times Netanyahu Ignored, Defied, or Worked Around the President May 2026 Why This Article Exists A standard frame for the Israel–U.S. relationship goes like this: Israel does what Washington tolerates, and stops what Washington forbids. The frame is comfortable for everyone. It lets American officials claim leverage, lets Israeli officials cite American constraint, and lets foreign critics direct their fire at Washington. The 2025–2026 record breaks the frame.
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A Catalog of the Times Netanyahu Ignored, Defied, or Worked Around the President May 2026 Why This Article Exists A standard frame for the Israel–U.S. relationship goes like this: Israel does what Washington tolerates, and stops what Washington forbids. The frame is comfortable for everyone. It lets American officials claim leverage, lets Israeli officials cite American constraint, and lets foreign critics direct their fire at Washington. The 2025–2026 record breaks the frame. Across at least seven distinct, well-documented incidents — striking a U.S. ally without warning, expanding the West Bank against an explicit presidential warning, contradicting the president on Gaza famine, narrowing a U.S.-brokered ceasefire after the fact, continuing strikes during ceasefires Trump publicly announced, daily ceasefire violations the U.S.