US-Israel relations: New fractures in congressional support for Israel

The US has been supportive of Israel for nearly eight decades, with only the mildest of tensions between the president and prime minister in the last 15 years or so.

Bipartisan congressional support for Israel has been more robust—until this year, with fractures never before seen within the Democratic and Republican parties.

Al Jazeera's Rosiland Jordan filed this report from Washington, DC.

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