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... Trump did not visit Israel " a snub that Israeli officials played down, as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has already visited the White House twice -- and there was a growing sense among Israeli commentators that something wasn't quite right.

This comes at a time when Israel is facing increasing criticism and isolation from other nations over the war in Gaza.

"If you take the last month and certainly the last week, in a series of moves and a series of statements, Trump not only completely sidelined Netanyahu and kept him out of the loop, but marginalized Israel as if it was not an ally," former senior Israeli diplomat Alon Pinkas, now a columnist for the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, told DW. ...