The Israeli-American relationship has always depended upon the American state capacity to do various things. But the crucial story of the Trump administration so far is the self-destruction of American state capacity.
So if Israelis in the future are expecting things like arms deliveries in crucial times, or they’re expecting the ability to broker peace talks or whatever, the Trump administration has essentially fired everybody who has the confidence to do that kind of thing, and the prospects are for more of that.
Timothy Snyder and other trenchant critics of American authoritarianism need to write and speak much more clearly about antisemitism and hatred of Israel when such ideological hatreds and misconceptions about Israel come from within the American university.
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