{"id":153182,"date":"2026-06-10T02:00:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T02:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/153182\/"},"modified":"2026-06-10T02:00:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T02:00:12","slug":"opinion-is-the-u-s-israel-alliance-still-strategic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/153182\/","title":{"rendered":"Opinion | Is the U.S.-Israel Alliance Still Strategic?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p aria-live=\"assertive\" class=\"css-1dv1kvn\">new video loaded: Is the U.S.-Israel Alliance Still Strategic?<\/p>\n<p>transcript<\/p>\n<p>Back<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1nng8z9\">transcript<\/p>\n<p>Is the U.S.-Israel Alliance Still Strategic?Is the U.S.-Israel alliance doing more harm than good? Matt Duss, the executive vice president at the Center for International Policy, joins \u201cThe Ezra Klein Show\u201d to discuss whether the strategic and moral costs of the U.S.-Israel alliance outweigh the benefits.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-8hvvyd\">The other argument you\u2019ll hear is that Israel is an American ally. Israel is an important strategic partner in the region and in intelligence and cooperation and other things. And so there is an American strategic interest, more of a realist take than a values-based take in maintaining a tight alliance. Do you buy that? I mean, are we benefiting from our relationship to the Middle East right now? What\u2019s happening? Are we benefiting from this relationship? I mean, yes, I hear this argument a lot. It\u2019s almost, it\u2019s like a holy writ in Washington. I do question it. Yes, it\u2019s good to have allies. It\u2019s good to have democratic allies. I think the United States should work with allies to defend their legitimate security interests. I think what Israel has been doing is not remotely legitimate. And when I hear people bring up: Oh, we have this cooperation on technology, on tech. And my answer is: Well, for what? Obviously this is very, very good for Israel. This alliance has been very, very good for Israel. But when I look at the costs and benefits, both strategically, ethically, morally, politically, diplomatically to the U.S.-Israel relationship, I don\u2019t think it works out in the U.S.\u2019s favor.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Clip-2-Is-the-US-Israel-Alliance-Still-Strategic-CLEAN--jumbo.jpg\" data-testid=\"betamax-poster\"   fetchpriority=\"high\" class=\"_poster_13tnt_20\"\/>Is the U.S.-Israel alliance doing more harm than good? Matt Duss, the executive vice president at the Center for International Policy, joins \u201cThe Ezra Klein Show\u201d to discuss whether the strategic and moral costs of the U.S.-Israel alliance outweigh the benefits.<\/p>\n<p>By \u2018The Ezra Klein Show\u2019<\/p>\n<p>June 9, 2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"new video loaded: Is the U.S.-Israel Alliance Still Strategic? transcript Back transcript Is the U.S.-Israel Alliance Still Strategic?Is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":153183,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[33],"tags":[37,48998,179,48999,2429],"class_list":["post-153182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-israel","tag-matt-duss","tag-military","tag-morality","tag-us-foreign-policy"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116723346609410364","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153182\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/153183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}