Netanyahu Doesn’t Care About His Friendship With Biden
Washington should be dictating policy to Jerusalem, not the other way around.
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The Hezbollah leader escalated a fight that Israel was only too eager to wage. Now Israel claims to have killed him.
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The United States and Saudi Arabia seem fated to deepen their partnership. We should make that partnership as functional as possible.
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Saudi Arabia knows that Israel will be the fall guy when this agreement falls apart.
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Disregard pundits searching for a deeper geopolitical meaning to this war.
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The notion of an indomitable Israel Defense Forces is overdue for a revision.
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The lesson 30 years on from the Battle of Mogadishu is that, with the right response, defeat can be a better tutor than victory.
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But public sentiment is turning against it.
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