Zvi Bar'el in Haaretz: ‘Is U.S. President Donald Trump the one who threw Israel under the bus (which he was driving)? Or was it Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who decided that this was the surest way to commit diplomatic suicide?’

And: ‘Let's imagine that the family of the one committing suicide – in this case, the State of Israel – were to sue Trump for encouraging Netanyahu to take that desperate step. After all, the two marched arm in arm into a war against Iran that was doomed to fail. And Trump even hit the gas while still under the influence of the intoxicating drug of power.’

As well: ‘Intelligence depends on credibility and credibility depends on partnership. But the partnership has been eroded year after year – with Netanyahu's speech to Congress in 2015, arranged behind U.S. President Barack Obama's back.’

What comes after diplomatic suicide? Real defeat? Liberation? Another bloody war?

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