Kuala Lampur, July 30 -- For decades, Israel could rely on bipartisan, no-questions-asked support from Washington - especially from the Republican right. Evangelicals, conservative pundits, and red-state politicians rallied behind Tel Aviv with Bible verses in one hand and defence budgets in the other. But cracks are forming. Loud ones.

And not just on the liberal side of the aisle.

In what may be one of the more dramatic shifts in US foreign policy sentiment, parts of Donald Trump's MAGA base - the loudest flag-wavers for Israel since the Bush era - are starting to whisper, hesitate, even pull back.

Take this in: in 2017, Democrats sympathised with Israel over the Palestinians by 13 points. By 2025? That number flipped-43 per cent now...