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Mamdani's Primary Wins Deepen Democratic Rift on Israel as Netanyahu-Trump Feud Intensifies

6/27/2026

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani backed three pro-Palestinian candidates to congressional primary victories Tuesday, knocking out two Democratic incumbents including Representative Dan Goldman and accelerating a party-wide shift away from Israel that Republicans have already branded the "Commie Corridor." The results arrived as President Donald Trump's relationship with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hit new lows, with Trump privately calling the prime minister expletive-laden names and accusing Netanyahu's continued Lebanon strikes of undermining U.S.-Iran nuclear negotiations, according to "Regime Change," the book by journalists Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan.

Netanyahu's Fracturing Alliance With the White House Trump's frustration with Netanyahu spans the personal and the strategic.

He told the prime minister "you'd be in prison if it wasn't for me" and "all the Jews are sick of you," according to "Regime Change," while accusing Netanyahu's ongoing Hezbollah strikes in Lebanon of wrecking U.S.

efforts to reach a nuclear agreement with Iran.

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