US midterms: Not even Trump's Israel aid stunt could rescue the Republicans

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Washington's support for its ally has become an electoral liability, but ending the annual funding package could pave the way for deeper military cooperation There is nothing particularly unusual about an election stunt. Politicians routinely perform them. Rarely, though, is a stunt as obvious as the one US President Donald Trump pulled on 3 November, Election Day, when he announced that America would, at year's end, stop providing $4bn in annual military aid to Israel. Trump had clearly read th