ISRAEL HAYOM (by agreement with JNS)
Israel has two years left to act. After that, it will be too late
Amit Segal
October 8, 2026

On January 20, 2029, in the early evening, a new occupant will sit down in the Oval Office at the White House. In front of the cameras, following the tradition of the last decade, he’ll sign a long string of executive orders that will instantly and sharply alter the course of the great American aircraft carrier. If he’s a Democrat, and the odds of that now stand at 50 percent at least, among the stack of papers his aides hand him will likely be recognition of a Palestinian state, a ban on importing goods from the settlements, sanctions on a string of right-wing Israeli politicians, and more still to come. It’s remarkable how little connection there is between the shabby, substance-free election campaign that’s been running here these past months and the real issue of the next term: the head-on collision approaching between Israel and the world over the Palestinian question. This is the diabolical legacy of the tormentor Yahya Sinwar, who in dying bequeathed the return of this issue to the center of the international table…READ MORE

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