Peloni: The US-Israeli partnership has been an important asset to both nations over the years, culminating in the seamless joint attack on Iran this year. Importantly, however, there are reasons why this relationship has taken on a nature which distinguishes a lack of equal respect by the US for Israel, upon whom it has used Israel’s partnership and dependency with the US to manipulate the Jewish state against its own interests. The below proposal makes mention of the potential of including Israel in a similar arrangement with Riyadh. There is a problem here, and that problem is that the more integrated or integral Israel becomes to the US, the less freedom of action she can have in determining and pursuing her own national interests. The complications would be even more difficult in such a marshal relationship with a nation such as Saudi Arabia whose national interest rides on Israel agreeing to the creation of an existential threat in the form of a second Palestinian state. As I have noted before, many things with SA become easier if Riyadh would accept that the second Palestinian state would be understood to in fact be the original Muslim Palestinian state of Jordan. This however would not erase the dilemma of Israel’s dependency on either the US or SA, something which recent and past events have demonstrated a need for Israel to extricate herself from being manipulated against her own interests.
Bradley Bowman | Dec 19, 2025
27th Adir F35 arrival at Nevatim, August 2020. Photo by U.S. Embassy Jerusalem – DSC_0863SM, CC BY 2.0, Wikipedia
In one’s personal life and in the life of a nation, it is good to have friends. It is even better to have capable and motivated friends, especially when one confronts increasingly formidable enemies who cooperate with one another. The Trump administration may publish its new National Defense Strategy soon, and its lines of effort will include “increasing burden-sharing with U.S. allies” and “supercharging the U.S. defense industrial base,” according to a December 6 speech by Secretary Pete Hegseth previewing the strategy.
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