Gaza, a year on from Operation Protective Edge: As Israel’s relationship with the US deteriorates, has international opinion turned against the Jewish state? | The Independent

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Among Israeli diplomats there is a joke laced with much truth. It lists Israel’s three most important international relationships: the United States, the United States and the United States.

In recent years that doctrine has been tested. Not only is the rapport between Barack Obama and Benjamin Netanyahu stuck in the deep freeze, US support for recognising a Palestinian state is growing. Last month, in a move that a few years ago might have been considered unheard of, a State Department official appeared to suggest that “Israeli territories”, for which one should read West Bank settlements, could be treated differently in terms of US diplomacy….


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