Consider: As Netanyahu arrived in Washington, even his mode of travel, the Wings of Zion plane that is now the Air Force One of the Jewish state, reflected the fact that, while Israel may be a country of a mere 9 million people, it is, militarily and technologically, a major power. Israel’s prime minister was the first world leader invited to the White House by the most powerful person on earth upon his ascension to the presidency. At the White House, the president of the United States held forth in a press conference that—however else one interprets it—made clear that the administration was rejecting the pious platitudes regarding the “two-state solution” that has dominated discussions about the Middle East. The war of the past 15 months has been filled with sacrifice and heartbreak. But it has also resulted in the shattering of the Iranian axis, leaving Israel in a position that makes it the unqualifiedly strongest actor in the region. When was the last time in history that a Jewish polity found itself in such a position?
The answer: around 3,000 years ago.
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