Peloni: Alliances require a certain level of understanding between the partners which respects the needs and abilities of eachother which serves to both support and to continue the partnership. A caveat to this is that public pronouncements of disrespect and daylight should be avoided at all costs. Trump’s behavior since entering into his mad dash for a deal in the past two months has, for some reason, come to demonstrate a growing disrespect for the partnership between himself and Bibi. Not only has this been made clear in public, but it appears that this being made public is more and more Trump’s earnest intent. While Bibi and Trump have alternate political objectives, it is not entirely in Trump’s interest to denigrate his partnership with Israel as he is currently in negotiations with the Arabs and the Iranians. Since Trump can hardly be unaware of any of this, it seems there is a greater game at play than the public pronouncements might indicate…maybe…
Arlene Kushner | June 8, 2026
President Donald J. Trump participate in an expanded bilateral meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Monday, Jan. 27, 2020, in the Oval Office of the White House. (Official White House Photo by D. Myles Cullen)
It was roughly 6 AM this morning, and I was sitting in my safe space because of a Home Front alert warning of an incoming Iranian missile that might be headed to Jerusalem, when my daughter, who was sitting in her mamad (safe room) in Beit Shemesh, sent me a WhatsApp message:
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