Michael Waltz’s demotion is a flashpoint in the MAGA civil war over foreign policy. Jeet Heer In Donald Trump’s Washington, where chaos and ever-tightening authoritarianism are the order of the day, you have to take your good news where you can find it: The firing last Thursday of the ultra-hawkish national security adviser Michael Waltz was as close to unmitigated good news as one can reasonably hope for at the present moment.

As President Donald Trump visits the Middle East on his first major foreign trip of his second term, there is one country he isn’t scheduled to visit that might come as a surprise: Israel. With planned presidential stops in Saudi Arabia,

What the US deal with Hamas says about Trump’s spat with Netanyahu - ANALYSIS: The release of the last American held captive in Gaza, brokered directly between the US and Hamas, comes amid swirling ru

The Washington Post reported that Donald Trump soured on Waltz over Waltz's support for an Israeli attack on Iran.

This moment is testing the relationship of the two men, both of whom are politically divisive, fiercely combative and have outsize egos.

Israel and the United States are bound not merely by interests but by values: democracy, innovation, and the conviction that free peoples.

Fear is mounting in Israel that US President Donald Trump is building a Middle East policy that increasingly excludes Israel, as signs emerge that even the country’s most important allies are growing frustrated with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s ultranationalist government.

We’re in close contact with the United States. But I said one way or the other – Iran will not have nuclear weapons,” he said. Netanyahu has said he would favor a strict diplomatic agreement similar to Libya’s deal in 2003 to destroy its nuclear ...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, on Tuesday, declared that the country’s military will intensify its operations in Gaza “with full force” in the coming days, signaling a major escalation in the conflict despite ongoing ceasefire negotiations and the recent release of a United States-Israeli hostage,