U.S. support for Israel and its controversial Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

has long been a source of domestic political tension but never like this past month.

As President Biden and other Democrats grow more critical of Netanyahu, Republicans are eager to turn support for Israel into a presidential campaign wedge issue.

All this and more next.

This is Washington Week with the Atlantic.

Good evening and welcome to Washington Week.

Those of us who have covered Middle East politics remember well the bad old days when Benjamin

Netanyahu and Barack Obama were feuding endlessly over Israel's West Bank settlement project

and Iran's nuclear program. but nothing has prepared us for today's

extraordinary level of tension.

Joining me tonight to discuss this and more, Franklin Four and Ann Applebaum are my colleagues and staff writers at the Atlantic.

Nicole Killian is a congressional correspondent for CBS News.

And Jonathan Carl is the chief Washington correspondent for ABC News and the author of

tired of winning Donald Trump and the end of the grand old party.

Welcome to all of you.

I apologize to this side of the table. We're rolling deep on the Atlantic tonight.

Try not to be too intimidated by it. And congratulations on your book. I want to talk about that in a few minutes.

But Nicole, I'm going to start with you,

because I saw you on TV today.

I saw you earlier.

You are following Marjorie Taylor Green

through the Capitol, and a very exciting part

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