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Guest Essay

By Nimrod Novik

Mr. Novik was the policy adviser and special envoy to Prime Minister Shimon Peres of Israel.

President Trump deserves credit for pushing to stabilize three Middle East flashpoints — Gaza, Lebanon and Syria. Yet on all three fronts, the region’s most powerful player and ostensibly America’s closest ally, Israel, is undercutting Mr. Trump’s Middle East strategy.

After the trauma of the Oct. 7 attacks by........

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