Michael Oren, Israel’s ambassador to the United States, was recently quoted in the Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper as saying that the two countries’ bilateral relationship is suffering its “worst crisis since 1975. Thirty-five years ago, Israel deployed troops in the Egyptian Sinai. The move — of dubious legality — quite rightly drew pressure from the US.
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