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

Israel’s prolonged political volatility and uncertainty has had a disastrous impact on its strategic flexibility.
Over the next few weeks, Blue and White leader Benny Gantz will come to terms with the unalterable reality that he cannot form a government. And then we shall see what happens.
The fact that Netanyahu announced his annexation plan just as Bolton was departing suggests the administration’s positions on Israel are unlikely to change now that one of its allies is gone.
Sources in Washington acknowledged that there is no contradiction between Netanyahu’s plan to annex the Jordan Valley and Trump’s peace plan. It is impossible to overstate the significance of these statements.
Israel has two strategic interests that could be significantly advanced by changes in its security ties with the U.S. Neither necessitates signing a formal agreement.