U.S. to Bridge Middle-East Gap

Without the U.S., the alpha dog that pulls everyone together in a crisis would not exist.

[I]ncreasingly, Europe is now calling out the impulsiveness of the man in the White House.

The summits are not endpoints. They are the mechanism by which two countries, which can neither resolve their differences nor afford to rupture them, manage the interval between crises.

[I]f in the past the [U.S.] stood by Israel, today it is more present inside the decision-making process itself.