Where does Iran deal leave US-Israel relationship as they reach ‘a fork in the road’?

It took more than a day after news of Donald Trump’s deal with Iran went public for Benjamin Netanyahu to speak out. When he finally appeared at a press conference on Monday evening, the Israeli prime minister skirted a cornerstone of his past public appearances: his excellent relationship with the US president. “There are cases in which President Trump and I do not see eye to eye,” he said when asked about that. “I am responsible for Israel’s security interests, and it needs to be done wisely.” As to the deal, he told its many critics not to pass judgment yet: “We do not know what the agreement will be.” Increasingly, the Israeli prime minister who had dominated relations with five US presidents has had to face the prospect of Israel going it alone against Iran . It is a remarkable turnaround from a mere four months ago, when his intervention and a White House presentation that he had given to successive US administrations finally hit home, convincing Trump to mount a joint attack. But if Netanyahu has not been forthcoming about his souring relationship with Washington, then the converse has not been true. In one conversation with Axios, Trump said that he was “so pissed off” and told Netanyahu that he had “no fucking judgment”. In public, Trump laid into Netanyahu for launching strikes against Lebanon, where the Iran-backed Hezbollah is in conflict with Israel, on the “special day” when his peace treaty was to be announced. …