There have been three recent developments that collectively represent major strategic defeats for Israel. All of them, it’s important to note were the result of our misreading of Trump’s Middle East agenda and Bibi’s complete and utter failure as our leader.
These set backs include:

(1) Bibi’s acceptance of a Russian peacekeeping force along our border with Syria. Bibi agreed to this during his recent conversation with Vladimir Putin. So, once again, Russian forces are deployed as a shield for Syria.

(2) The American backed UN resolution setting up an international security force in Gaza also calls for a “pathway” to Palestinian statehood. All Bibi had to do to stop this disaster was withdraw from the UN (finally!), tell Trump his 20 point Peace Plan was dead on arrival and bring about the annexation of Gaza by destroying Hamas and expelling the resident Islamo Nazi Arabs.

(3) Trump’s decision to sell F-35s (and probably F-15EXs) to Saudi Arabia without keeping in mind his commitment to protecting our Qualitative Military Edge just underscores his contempt for both Israel and Bibi. Conditioning this sale on Saudi Arabia joining the Abraham Accords was a stupid idea that we should NEVER have suggested. It simply wasn’t going to happen. A better approach would have been for us to push for co production rights for the F-47 and, failing that, warning Trump that his reckless transactional foreign policy was going to result in our testing a nuclear weapon. I think even a narcissist like Trump would understand what that would mean for the value of his regional business investments.

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