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    Trump-Netanyahu: True bromance, or marriage of convenience?

    Mar 22, 2019 5 minutes

    As president, Donald Trump has had his share of bromances with world leaders – certainly more than his predecessor, the cool Barack Obama, ever did.

    There was the short-lived fling with French President Emmanuel Macron, an early dalliance with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe that failed to launch, and a cozying up to strongman leaders – from Russia’s Vladimir Putin and Turkey’s Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines – that remain a feature of Mr. Trump’s presidency.

    And then of course there was Mr. Trump’s own admission that he and North Korea’s Kim Jong Un “fell in love.”

    But none of these courtships has had the visceral kinship and staying power of the relationship between Mr. Trump and Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu – a relationship that has addressed each leader’s professed respective priorities, from border security and the status of Jerusalem to, now,

    More than warmth, utilityBillboards in IsraelAny Israeli give on peace plan?

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