On the limits of power – The Economist:

‘Mr Biden’s legacy will forever be shaped by his response to Hamas’s massacre in Israel on October 7th 2023.
Donald Trump could not ignore the region: Gaza demanded his attention. Nine months into his second term, he has done a creditable job of handling it. The truce he negotiated in Gaza is not quite the “eternal peace” he makes it out to be. But it is a real achievement, one that eluded his predecessor, to be added to the Abraham accords, in which four Arab states normalised ties with Israel during his first term. It is one of three big decisions of late where Mr Trump broke with the usual American consensus and achieved what seems, at least in the short term, like success.’

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‘Another claim is that Mr Trump gets results by being unpredictable. Inconsistency is not always a virtue in foreign policy, though. If he had held Israel to the previous ceasefire, in January, the Gaza war might have ended seven months ago. Instead he proposed turning the enclave into a beach resort. Mr Netanyahu took that as a green light to resume fighting in March.
What Mr Trump gets right in the Middle East is not his choice of personnel or his chaotic personality. It is that he seems to understand the limits of American power there. That may sound paradoxical. The president likes superlatives. He talks about America as if it were a world-bestriding colossus. In the Middle East, however, he does not act that way.’

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‘“It’s their time to shine,” he said in May, when he announced that he would lift the sanctions altogether. “Good luck, Syria.” The job of shepherding the transition would fall to countries in the region with a greater stake in the outcome.’

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‘A tolerance for messiness could prove to be the strength of Mr Trump’s Middle East policy—or its weakness.’

Read the article here.

In other words, isolationism light is the right approach, at least in the Middle East.

And American power might be limited, see Iraq And Afghanistan, Bibi is willing to listen to his boss.