‘That’s What I’m Doing With India’: Netanyahu Says Israel Needs New Allies As Rift With US Widens

Last Updated:July 09, 2026, 20:14 IST

Netanyahu seeks new alliances, including India, amid US rift; tensions rise as US-Iran war reignites, strikes hit Iran, and Trump-Netanyahu ties sour over peace disagreements.

Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that he is trying to build new relationships and alliances with different powers of the world besides the United States, and that is what he is trying to do in India. His comments have come amid an apparent rough patch that the relationship between Israel and the US is going through in the backdrop of the war in West Asia.

“You have to build new alliances and develop new relationships. That’s what I’m doing right now with India," Israeli PM Netanyahu said, speaking with Sharon Gal, a prominent right-wing journalist in Israel.

After some Israeli officials criticised the peace deal struck between the US and Iran, US Vice President JD Vance had suggested Israeli government to not speak against “the only powerful ally" the Jewish state was ‘left’ with “anywhere in the world.

Following this, Benjamin Netanyahu appeared to push back saying, “We have some other friends, like a small country called India. It has 1.4 billion people, and boy, do we have tremendous support there."

War Reignited

The war between US-Israel and Iran has reignited after the Islamic Republic attacked three commercial ships in the Strait of Hormuz for not following the route mandated by it and instead choosing the route under America’s control.

Following this, the US launched massive strikes at multiple locations across Iran. The US Central Command said that it had hit 170 military targets across Iran.

The peace agreement signed between the US and Iran had not even crossed the one month-mark when it came undone. After the peace deal had been signed, Israel had continued to attack places in Lebanon.

After US-Iran peace deal, Israelis continued to hit Lebanon with missiles which complicated the process of stabilising peace as Iran made it clear that any peace which does not extend to Hezbollah, one of its strongest allies in the region, would not last.

Soured Relation Between Trump And Netanyahu

Even today, while speaking with the CNN News18, Israel’s Ambassador Reuven Azar said that his country agreed on a peace deal with Lebanon only “out of respect" for the US. In fact, the personal relationship between the American President and the Israel Prime Minster had grown acrimonious over differences on how to conduct and end their war in West Asia.

Reports also emerged that revealed conversations between the two leaders in which the American President even used expletives against Israel’s Netanyahu.

In a new book, authored by Maggie Haberman and Johnathan Swan, titled Regime Change: Inside The Imperial Presidency Of Donald Trump, it was revealed that in a phone call with Netanyahu when a peace deal was being discussed between Israel and Hamas, the US President said he was ‘sick’ of the Israeli leader, who is often called ‘Bibi’.

“I’ve done everything to protect you. You better go along with this. It’s been going on for too long. Everybody’s sick of you, Bibi," he had said. ‘This’, here, referred to the peace deal being negotiated.

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