The long-aligned political partnership between U.S. President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has fallen into unprecedented public strain, following reports of a profane, heated phone call that laid bare deep divides over Middle East war strategy just months ahead of critical U.S. midterm elections. The two leaders, who jointly launched the current war against Iran, clashed sharply after Trump reportedly lashed out at Netanyahu over Israel’s planned strikes on Beirut, Lebanon, out of fear that such an attack would derail fragile peace negotiations with Tehran, according to joint reporting from Axios and ABC News.