Published: 16 July 2016
Last updated: 4 March 2024
Even some of Netanyahu’s harshest critics admit privately that his Africa trip - the first sub-Saharan visit by an Israeli leader since 1987 - capped a string of diplomatic successes. Taken together, they’re transforming Israel’s international standing. Admittedly, it’s a triumph with an asterisk. One of the main effects of Netanyahu’s successes is to blunt international pressure for compromise with the Palestinians. Given the widely held belief, at least among Israel’s security leadership and much of its foreign policy establishment, that inaction is leading Israel inexorably toward a single Israeli-Palestinian state, either non-Jewish or non-democratic, the diplomatic triumph might be called suicidal.
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