Israel pays the price of the one-sided gamble in Washington
Tamir Hayman, head of INSS, analyzes the results of the US midterm elections and determines that Israel remains without a partisan home. He proposes six steps for the incoming government to restore relations, and warns against continuing the one-sided gamble on the Republicans.
Tamir Hayman, a reserve major general and head of the Institute for National Security Studies (INSS), argues that Israel has been left without a partisan home in the United States following its one-sided bet on the Republican Party. According to him, the midterm congressional elections revealed that the only bipartisan consensus is a distancing from Israel. Hayman proposes six immediate steps for the incoming government: fresh leadership, strengthening the peace agreements (Jordan, Egypt, the Abraham Accords), respecting the sovereignty of Arab states, stopping settler violence, implementing the 20-point plan in Gaza, and declaring a commitment to a Palestinian political vision. He emphasizes that these steps are necessary first and foremost for Israel itself, and that the cancellation of American military aid is a wake-up call but not an immediate crisis.