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Trump's MAGA base defies conservative pro-Israel doctrine - US AFP News (2025-07-30) (hcommons.social)

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Trump's MAGA base defies conservative pro-Israel doctrine - US AFP News (2025-07-30)

https://us.afpnews.com/article/?trumps-maga-base-defies-conservative-proisrael-doctrine,688Q364
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>> Political scientist and former US diplomat Michael Montgomery thinks the tonal shift might in part be emotional -- with TV images of starving children resonating more profoundly than the aftermath of air strikes.

>> "Perhaps it is because no civilized people see starvation as a legitimate weapon of war," the University of Michigan-Dearborn professor told AFP.

>> Israel has always enjoyed broad bipartisan support in Congress but the rise of the isolationist MAGA movement under Trump has challenged the ideological foundations ...

>> Pro-Trump think tank The Heritage Foundation in March called on Washington to "re-orient its relationship with Israel" from a special relationship "to an equal strategic partnership."

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