Many Israelis are worried about the upcoming visit of the US President to Israel. The schedule is already famous, the issues on the agenda are known, and they are indeed worrying: the consulate in Jerusalem, construction in Jerusalem, the Temple Mount, Sheikh Jarrah.
Above the visit is a cloud, and it is the Palestinian aspiration to extract an achievement from this visit and the desire of the administration to provide such an achievement.
It is hoped that the visit will go smoothly, and that Prime Minister Lapid will use his charms on the sleepy guest and minimize the damage of the visit. These, while ignoring the magnitude of the power of the historic window of opportunity that opened to Israel during the Trump era.
One does not have to be a great Americanologist to understand matters related to spirit and atmosphere.
Netanyahu's great achievement in relation to the Trump administration was not necessarily measured in the bottom line, although it was also respectable enough (not enough in my opinion).
The great achievement lies in the spirit of things.
No matter how we reverse the Biden administration's attitudes toward Israel, the spirit that emerges from them is an identification with the Palestinian narrative, which strives to convince the world that the very existence of Israel is a "problem."
Some support this "problem", some object to it, but this is our story since '48: "problem".
An established problem, a successful problem, a problem with which Americans have an identity of interests, but a "problem."
The light years of the Trump administration and the cooperation between his administration and the Netanyahu government were characterized by this fundamental perceptual change.
There was a government that treated Israel naturally, as a solid fact, not only because of interests but because of complete identification with the Zionist narrative based on natural and historical right, and the Palestinian opposition was treated as a "problem": Israel is stable and just, it has problems, and the problems need to be solved.
These are not different approaches that are differentiated in nuances.
These are different stories.
This situation may have been caused by the problematic nature and personality of the previous president.
Who the hell cares?
Israel of 2022 will not crave the gospel of redemption if it comes from a mad mouth?
And everything written here is understood by every Israeli.
So why, after all, rejoicing over the democratic victory and the disgust of everything disgusted with Trump among the liberal communities in Israel?
Because of the double pose game, which includes first of all the need to look universal and treat every American conflict as if it is taking place in lower Haifa, and secondly - the need to look and be considered enlightened.
It is a powerful engine that drives many Israelis, and it is what made them treat the issue of abortions in the United States with an emotional level of involvement as if it were their business. No, friends, it is not. And yes, Trump was a gift.
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