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Or Yissachar

Or Yissachar is vice president for research at the Israel Defense and Security Forum.

The community of 150,000 members in the Jewish state hold key positions in elite units of the Israel Defense Forces, as well as in industry, academia and technology.
A renewed U.S. footprint in the region will alienate China, pull Arab countries to America’s orbit, cement the unified front against Iran and design the security architecture that Israel has been advocating for.
Any perceived daylight between Washington and Jerusalem would constitute a national security asset for Tehran.
The allegedly isolationist Trump administration has actually succeeded in leading an unprecedented Arab-Israeli coalition, calling into question the previous orthodoxy about the centrality of the Palestinians to peace.