Israel today faces a historic junction. In the debate that preceded the Declaration of Independence, Haim Weizman sent a telegram from Geneva: "Immediately, gates have been breached, if we break into our country, if not, who knows if we will win our generation for it." During such hours, experts and officers who wish to wait for detailed headline papers can cause the hour to be missed. Leaders, however, who are required to make a fateful decision, are required to listen to an internal imperative, an age-longing, and to direct a national compass. But in recent decades, the compass of the State of Israel has been hard to tell: Where does Israel want to go?

From its earliest days, the Zionist enterprise existed in tension between two trends: between the aspiration for redemption and homeland in the land of the ancestors, and the aspiration without more than a safe haven for persecuted Jews. Despite the long-standing success of establishing a national common denominator, the controversy re-emerged at every juncture. At this time, both trends are emerging in their renewed clash, as in the gap between the demand for holding the Jordan Valley for security purposes only, and the expectation to operate in this region of the country with full settlement and sovereign expression.

What makes the time for opportunity lies in President Trump's turn in the American approach to Israel. In the decades since the alliance between Israel and the United States was formed, the US government has expressed commitment to the security of the State of Israel, but has reservations about its demands for homeland strikes conquered in '67.

In the efforts of President Obama and Secretary of State Kerry to enforce an order on the Israeli government, General John Allen was sent to formulate a security plan to address Israel's security fears of a nearly complete withdrawal in the West Bank, including the Jordan Valley. Tom Friedman described in his New York Times article ( 17.02.2013) Washington's expectation that, with General Allen's defense response, "Netanyahu's government will reach an intersection that will force it to choose between peace and ideology." Thus, through the Allen program, the Obama administration sought to resolve its commitment to Israel's security, rejecting all its demands for space. Beyond the '67 lines. This is the background that highlights the size of the offer: recognizing Israeli affinity and the right to own Spaces beyond the '67 lines, and not just for security purposes.

Although this turnaround does not give Israel its full expectation, it stands in the sense of the precedent for peace agreements with Egypt, which set a full Israeli withdrawal until the last centimeter. This is the precedent that dragged Ehud Barak at Camp David 2000 to Clinton outline - in which, for leaving about three percent of the land in Israel's hands as settlement blocs, Israel was required to exchange land accordingly.
At the heart of the turnaround, President Trump joins Lord Balfour and Righteous Among the Nations, who, beyond the issue of security arrangements for a people seeking asylum, have seen Israel's rebirth in the Bible in a line of cosmic salvation. "There is a buyer in his world in one hour and he loses his world in one hour." At this time, before the elections, the historic decision between the two ways is given by every citizen and citizen of the State of Israel.

Gen. (Res.) Gershon Cohen is a senior research fellow at the Begin Sadat Center for Strategic Studies