USA – Israel: The End of a Sacred Pact?

For eighty years, the United States and Israel have shared a relationship unlike any other, a “sacred pact” that defies the logic of international relations and has withstood decades of crises, wars and upheaval. More than a political alliance, a bond of faith, memory and emotion, unlike anything else in world affairs.

October 7, 2023. Hamas strikes at the heart of the Jewish state, and America grieves as if wounded in its own flesh. On the giant screens of Times Square, Israeli and American flags intertwine; on CNN, a White House spokesman breaks down in tears live on air; President Biden reaffirms the unbreakable bonds between the two nations. Barely two years later, American and Israeli forces strike Iran side by side: the first time the two countries have gone to war together. Under Trump and Netanyahu, the alliance has never seemed higher.

And yet something is shifting. For the first time, the bond is fraying. American sympathy for Israel has fallen to a historic low. Democrats are challenging Washington’s unconditional support for the Jewish state, while even the MAGA movement is tearing itself apart over Israel. From Washington to Jerusalem, one question now echoes: is Israel, paradoxically, on the verge of losing the United States?

What are the origins of this profound bond? How did this “special relationship” become an untouchable axiom of American foreign policy, a bond so strong it transcends cold strategic interest, and so sacred it became almost an article of faith? And why, today, does a bond once thought unbreakable begin to falter?

Through unreleased archives, declassified documents and exclusive testimony from key players on both sides, the film investigates a relationship on the edge, takes us behind the scenes of this extraordinary pact, from its historic roots to today’s crisis. Is the most controversial, most instrumentalized alliance of the past half-century entering its ultimate phase? Or has it, on the contrary, reached its breaking point?