When it comes to “special relationships” , it is quite clear that the UK is genuinely high up the list in Donald Trump’s America. But nowhere in the world seems quite as special to the US as Israel.

This is a relationship that has consumed presidents – and required careful and constant political navigation by Israeli Prime Ministers too.

So it is perhaps not surprising that Trump is the one man on the planet right now with real power to influence Benjamin Netanyahu.

It is not a strength that Trump has chosen to use until now – but with these latest talks is a sense of real progress and hope. So what has changed?

In 2019, Trump claimed he was the most pro-Israeli president in history. It is a position that arguably made progress to peace more difficult to envisage.

As one former ne

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