10 June 2024

America’s Israel Policy Is Stuck in the 1990s

Steven A. Cook

In March, Vice President Kamala Harris and other senior American officials met with the leader of Israel’s National Unity political alliance and war cabinet member, Benny Gantz. He was in Washington to understand and perhaps take the edge off the differences between the United States and Israel over the war in Gaza. The Biden administration’s frustration with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Gantz’s reputation as the “adult in the room,” and the Bibi Derangement Syndrome—the other BDS—that afflicts much of Washington’s foreign-policy community created great expectations for Gantz’s visit.

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