From the New York Times, I'm Natalie Kittrowave. This is the Daily.

As the U.S. and Iran try to reach a lasting end to the war, a major threat has emerged, the volatile

conflict in Lebanon. President Trump needs Israel to stop attacking Hezbollah there

in order to get Iran to agree to a deal. But many supporters of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin

Netanyahu feel betrayed by Trump's actions. Today, my colleagues Ronan Bergman and Mark Mazetti explain the growing tensions between the

United States and Israel and how this moment is testing a decades-old alliance.

It's Wednesday, June 24th.

Ronan, Mark, welcome back. It's great to have you both here again.

Thanks, Natalie.

Pleasure being here. Thank you.

So in the last several days, we have seen a stunning break between the U.S. and Israel,

who entered this war in Iran as partners and are now very clearly at odds over how it ends.

And this is a split that you both said was already developing in April the last time you were on the show.

And so I want to start by asking, how big of a deal is the rupture that we are seeing over this new ceasefire and peace negotiation?

I think, Natalie, there's no, at least not in my vocabulary, not in English and not even in Hebrew.

There are not enough words to describe the magnitude of what we are seeing from the point of view of Israeli politics, of Netanyahu's

legacy, is present, chances to be reelect, and of course from the point of view of the Israeli

public. Three times he was able to convince Trump to allow him to strike in Iran, then he

convinced him to join him in June. And then he convinced Trump

to fulfill his life dream, a joint U.S.-Israeli strike together in order to topple the regime.

So until then, everything went very well for him. And this overnight shift of the American

administration is the undo of of everything for him.

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