FUTURE OF JEWISH
The guarantee that failed Israel is back
Adam Hummel
June 24, 2026

In recent days, an American president stood in a French palace, signed a memorandum ending a war that America undertook with Israeli support — a war Israel was then forbidden to finish — and called the Israeli prime minister his “very small partner.” He said it almost fondly. Benjamin Netanyahu “gets a little excited sometimes,” Trump explained. We are the big partner. He is the small one. When trying to make sense of the present, I often go looking for it in the past. Not for comfort necessarily, but because the present is bad at telling you what it actually is, and the past is much better at it. So when I read that phrase — “very small partner” — I went looking and found that I had read this script before. The setting changes, the waterway changes, the enemy changes. The structure, not so much. READ MORE