When the 'Most Reliable Ally' Is Neither an Ally Nor Reliable

Why should the U.S. be the one that is worried about angering its client?

Shibley Telhami flagged this passage from a New York Times article on Blinken’s visit to Israel:

Rebuilding ties with the Palestinians also risks angering Israel, the most reliable U.S. ally in the Middle East [bold mine-DL], whose leaders are already anxious about the Biden administration’s attempts to rejoin a nuclear agreement with Iran. Israel has lo…