[Ha’aretz] The Trump administration's policies on Israel show an emerging paradigm shift. If in the past, the United States sought to build a regional alliance with Israel at its center, it is now backing a Turkish-Saudi-Pakistani axis that will expand its influence in Syria, Iraq and Lebanon, and push Israel to the margins
Maj. Gen. (res.) Itzhak Brik is a former commander of the 36th Division, the Southern Corps (441) and the military colleges. He also served as the ombudsman for soldiers' complaints.
U.S. President Donald Trump's moves are weakening Israel and causing it to become increasingly isolated in the Middle East. For the State of Israel, this poses an existential danger both in terms of security and the economy.
The rest of the article is paywalled but the comments are a good set of reactions from paying subscribers who read the whole thing.
| Last I looked Ha’aretz had about a 5% share of the newspaper market in Israel, and that in a market where most of the population reads multiple news sites daily. I’m sure the comments are frothing at the mouth, loathing both the “fascist” center-right Netanyahu government and the “fascist” center-right Trump government equally, and convinced they are going to bring the whole Zionist project down around their ears. |
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