Lately, President Donald Trump has been increasingly critical of one of America's closest allies.
Without the United States, there would be no Israel.
Without me, there would be no Israel.
More specifically, Trump has been calling out Israel's Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu.
I've had a great relationship with BB, but now BB has to.
Be more responsible with respect to Lebanon.
That's Trump at a press conference last week.
He went on to criticize Netanyahu's tactics against one of Iran's allies in Lebanon, Hezbollah.
And too many people are being killed,
and you don't have to knock down an apartment house every time you're looking for somebody,
because there are a lot of people in those apartment houses, and they're not all Hezbollah.
Their conversations in private have gotten heated too.
At one point, Trump told Netanyahu over the phone that he was, quote, effing crazy.
Why is the relationship between Trump and Netanyahu important?
Well, it's important because A, it's one of the United States top allies and B,
the two men have been prosecuting this war together in Iran for the last four or five months.
That's our colleague Josh Dossi.
They went in together, Netanyahu was critical to convincing the president that it was a good idea.
The troops have been fighting together and sort of how this winds down.
The relationship between those two men is integral to figuring out what happens next in the Middle East.