Israel’s Good and Bad New Realities

New alliances with Arab nations are positive but unstable, and old enemies are most dangerous when in a weakened state.
One of the most radical changes in the labyrinth of the Middle East is the near cessation of the old formal hostility of the Arab nations to Israel. That does not mean that the destruction of the Jewish state is not still a commandment among hundreds of millions of Arab speakers throughout the Middle East in general and on the proverbial West Bank in particular.

Rather, a number of...