US secretary of state Marco Rubio shakes hands with Israeli Brigadier General Yaakov Dolf as he visits the Civil-Military Coordination Center in southern Israel on Friday. Rubio voiced confidence that the ceasefire in Gaza would hold. Photograph: Fadel Senna/Pool/AFP via Getty Images
Then prime minister Menachem Begin famously used the term “banana republic” in 1981 to angrily reply to US ambassador Samuel Lewis after Washington criticised Israel for annexi
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