Israel is in its most difficult strategic position since October 7th itself. It needs to find a new paradigm and a new voice, and quick.

Back then, after the horrors of October 7th, and with Hezbollah bombarding the north, most of the world rallied behind Israel… for several weeks at least.

How much that scenario has changed.

Faced with grim potential outcomes from the US-Iran negotiations, G-d forbid, Israel will likely respond the way it always does – angry defiance.

Few Israelis would disagree. There has been a lot of pain and suffering over the last few years while the north continues to bear the brunt.

But this cannot be the way in which Israel continues to present itself to the world. The Israeli public may demand this, but the interests of most of the rest of the world – rightly or wrongly – point in the opposite direction.

For President Trump, a rout in the mid-terms not only endangers the Administration’s agenda and legacy. It may also lead to renewed impeachment efforts in Congress and a raft of legal actions against his interests.

Ordinary Americans, and many people around........

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