For months, the question hanging over Jerusalem was what a US–Iran deal would mean for Israel.
In the newest episode of The Jerusalem Dispatch, host Calev Ben-David and co-host Ruth Marks Eglash, editor-in-chief of The Jerusalem Report, dig into the answer, and it isn’t the one many Israelis hoped for.
The new US–Iran memorandum of understanding has landed not as a victory lap after a war of ballistic missiles and bomb shelters, but as a deflating anticlimax, prompting the hosts to ask out loud: after all the sacrifice, what did Israel actually get?
From there, they turn unsparing. Why is JD Vance, seen in Israel as the administration’s least sympathetic voice, leading talks mediated by Qatar and Pakistan? Why does a new “deconfliction cell” in Lebanon leave Israel out while shaping its border towns, even as Trump warns Netanyahu not to “overreact” against Hezbollah but threatens to level Iran?
They probe the widening gap between Washington and Jerusalem, and the election squeeze closing in on Netanyahu by October.
The talk then pivots to sport: Iran crying oppression at the World Cup while jailing its own footballers, an Israeli flag furled in a Los Angeles stadium as a Palestinian one flew, and the Maccabiah opening July 1 as a quiet act of resilience.
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