The Israeli prime minister is indeed cynical, devious, and untrustworthy, but the excessive focus on Netanyahu allows flawed assumptions to flourish in Washington’s policy ecosystem. Steven A. Cook reflects on why U.S. politicians have been making a series of wrong assumptions about Israel that trace back 30 years. Read by Gary Furlong.

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America’s Israel policy is stuck in the 1990s

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