The settlers are celebrating the return to Homesh, but the settlements are not the future of the State of Israel. The far-right government apparently understood that its 64 Knesset members could not carry out a legal coup.

It is sad that it is the U.S. administration that occasionally reminds us of the danger to the existence of a Jewish and democratic state. Dianne Feinstein has served in the Senate for decades. At 89, she is the oldest senator, and some time ago announced that she would not run for another term.