According to him, during the upcoming meeting between American President Joe Biden and Israeli President Isaac Herzog, the former will tell the latter that "when the interests and values of a US government and an Israeli government diverge this much, a reassessment of the relationship is inevitable."
Friedman clarified that the reassessment would not affect the military and intelligence cooperation between the two but would only reassess the continued support for Israel in international organizations.
"Such a reassessment based on US interests and values would be some tough love for Israel but a real necessity before it truly does go off the rails," Friedman wrote. "That Biden is prepared to get in Netanyahu’s face before America’s 2024 election suggests that our president believes he has the support not only of most Americans for this but of most American Jews and even most Israeli Jews. He is right on all three counts. READ MORE
