"The fact is, the United States has always been inclined toward the Israeli side, but there have been moments of some daylight between the two, especially when Israel had very right-wing governments," Odeh recalled, citing the crisis in the 1990s between the governments of George H.W. Bush and then-Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir, when the U.S. threatened to cut off aid to Israel if it did not more actively negotiate, and also the tensions that arose during the administrations of Presidents Clinton and Obama.

Source: Los Angeles Times January 22, 2018 21:06 UTC