President Donald Trump‘s first foreign trip of his second term is underway. The president is visiting Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates. But Trump will not be visiting Israel. The exclusion of America’s historic Middle Eastern ally from Trump’s itinerary is a marked example of Trump’s declining sympathy for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s

Benjamin Netanyahu has long boasted of having Donald Trump’s ear. But as the US president tours the Middle East this week, it is not clear whether he is still listening. On Monday, Hamas released an American-Israeli hostage from Gaza following negotiations that bypassed Netanyahu,