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Caroline B. Glick is the international affairs advisor to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

We cannot know if Trump will beat the virus or if, with the lavish support of the Democrats, the “experts” and the media, the virus will beat him. Netanyahu is right: The time to act on Trump’s peace plan is now.
The coronavirus pandemic has highlighted the fact that we live in an age of uncertainty. In such times, granting a veto over Israel’s borders to neighbors that are falling apart before our eyes does not advance the cause of peace.
Blue and White leader Benny Gantz opposes applying Israeli law to the Israeli communities in Judea and Samaria, despite giving U.S. President Trump his word he would support the move. Israeli politicians don’t get very far by lying to U.S. presidents.
Israel’s ability to protect itself and adapt its economy to the new post-global-village reality will in large part determine how it survives and prospers in the post-global-village world now taking shape.
Amid a global pandemic, the threat of war with Iran and economic collapse, Israel’s Blue and White Party is dead set on bringing Netanyahu down—even if it means taking Israel down with him.
We don’t know how the political Gordian knot will be cut, but it is clear that Blue and White’s eagerness to form a coalition dependent on anti-Zionist Arab MKs does not inspire confidence in its leaders.
In America, voting is the only game in town and voters are the source of power. In Israel, the courts are in charge.
In a world where the best-case scenario has a Democratic Party that’s openly hostile to Israel, how is Israel supposed to deal with Hamas, the sweethearts of the radical left?
If the strategic processes now taking place with regard to Israel’s two most formidable adversaries aren’t given time to mature, they can and likely will be undone.
Facing the uncertainty of upcoming elections in both Israel and the U.S., what should Jerusalem do? Any move has to be based on a general understanding of how to fight anti-Semitism.
If Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu fails to apply Israeli sovereignty to the Judea and Samaria communities before the election, not only will he almost certainly lose the elections, his defeat will bury Trump’s peace plan and harm Trump’s re-election chances.
When you read the Trump plan closely, you realize it is a mirror image of the Oslo Accords. Rather than Israel being required to prove its good will, the Palestinians are required to prove their commitment to peace.