US-Israel relations ‘at 35-year low’
“Israel’s relations with the US are facing the most severe crisis since 1975,” the Yediot Aharonot newspaper yesterday quoted ambassador Michael Oren, a prominent Middle East historian, as telling consuls in the US during a telephone briefing.
That year US calls for a partial Israeli withdrawal from Egypt’s Sinai peninsula, then under Israeli occupation, ignited a major crisis between the two.
