How Netanyahu and his rookie FM turned a breakthrough with Libya into a debacle

It’s a safe bet that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu knew ahead of time that Foreign Minister Eli Cohen would be sitting down in Rome last week with the Libyan Foreign Minister Najla Mangoush.

Netanyahu is rightly proud to have signed the Abraham Accords in 2020, normalizing relations with the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain and Morocco, and beginning a similar process with Sudan — an achievement that required him, per the UAE’s demand, to set aside plans to annex a significant proportion of the West Bank including all the settlements. READ MORE