00:01Trump allies rallied to defend the U.S. president in Israel on Sunday.
00:05I know there's been an enormous level of anxiety about the relationship between the United States and Israel.
00:11U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee was among several speaking in Jerusalem
00:16who acknowledged the tension in Israel over the White House's interim deal with Iran.
00:21It's been one of those weeks where we're all reading things and saying, okay, yeah.
00:27Conservative Fox News commentator Mark Levin is a longtime Trump supporter
00:31who has broken with the president over the Iran deal.
00:34But he still had praise for Trump Sunday.
00:38He's got an enormously incredible record when it comes to promoting liberty,
00:45religious freedom, our Constitution, supporting Christianity, and supporting Judaism.
00:52He's a man of faith.
00:53The anxiety stems from several fronts.
00:57Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and many Israelis worry Trump's memorandum of understanding with Iran
01:03could empower a nation they view as their deadliest enemy.
01:07They're also unsettled by Trump's public pressure on Israel to agree to a ceasefire with Hezbollah
01:12and by sharp comments from the president, including calling Netanyahu, quote,
01:17quote, fucking crazy over the phone.
01:20At the Sunday event in Jerusalem, New York radio host Sid Rosenberg took a blunter approach,
01:26telling Israelis frustrated with Trump to consider the alternative.
01:30Or you could have J.D. Vance.
01:32Good luck with that.
01:34Vice President J.D. Vance recently said Trump is the only world leader currently sympathetic to Israel.
01:40If I was in the cabinet of the Israeli government, I might not be attacking the only powerful ally that
01:47I have anywhere left in the entire world.
01:50Two Israeli officials familiar with Netanyahu's thinking say he is not alarmed,
01:56believing Trump and Vance's comments may be partly aimed at managing domestic opinion ahead of November's midterm elections.
02:02A Pew Research Center poll from late March found that 57 percent of Republicans aged 18 to 49 now view
02:10Israel unfavorably,
02:12up from 50 percent the previous year.
02:15Other Israeli voices are calling for a long-term rethink.
02:19Knesset member Ohad Tal says Israel must prepare for a future with a less supportive U.S. leader.
02:26We also have to prepare ourselves for a day that we will see another president at the White House.
02:32And most likely the next president of America will not be as friendly and as supportive as President Trump was
02:40and is.
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