US secretary of state Antony Blinken made his first visit to Israel this week in hopes of bolstering the fragile ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas. The trip epitomises the importance of the US-Israel relationship: a diplomatic alliance that has long been critical to the foreign policy of both countries. But what do the US and Israel really get out of the alliance? Why is Israel so important to American evangelical voters? And what’s the future of this “special relationship”? Andrew Mueller speaks to David Makovsky, Sarah Posner and Anshel Pfeffer.

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