The GOP infighting on Capitol Hill has expanded to an unusual place: Israel.

For years, GOP leaders have used U.S. support for Israel as a wedge to highlight the stark divisions among Democrats, pitting Israel’s staunchest allies against pro-Palestinian liberals and challenging Democratic leaders to ease the tensions. Republicans, through it all, were virtually united on the issue.

Yet Israel’s long-running war against Hamas in Gaza, where the Palestinian death toll has topped 60,000 and recent images of starving children have prompted a global outcry, is now creating headaches for GOP leaders, as well.

While a vast majority of congressional Republicans still support Israel’s war effort, the party’s united front has cracked in recent weeks as members of a small but vocal isolationist wing — some invoking President Trump’s “America First” mantra — have pushed to slash U.S. military aid to Israel, forcing GOP leaders to stage uncomfortable votes that have accentuated growing divisions toward Tel Aviv in the Republican Party at large.

This week, that clash escalated when Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), a staunch conservative and close Trump ally, hammered a fellow Republican House member for supporting Israel’s “genocide” in Gaza — a label rejected by GOP leaders and, until now, applied by only a small group of liberal Democrats in the Capitol.

Other congressional conservatives have also aired sharp criticisms of Israel’s war strategy, suggesting the starvations are intentional almost........

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