Marc Lynch

If you remove that, I just don't see it.

And if anything, if I'm in the Israeli position, I want to maintain this posture, I even see that I have to even maintain more of an upper hand in the region.

I have an idea of controlling more territory.

and I see how dependent I have been the last two and a half years on the U.S., I would be terrified of losing it.

And there is no country in the world that can replace that.

Netanyahu can use that as we're going to go on, we're going to be the ally of China instead of India, or India is more like it, actually, because they have a close relationship with India.

But no one has that kind of power, the one that we bring to bear.

I'll start with Diana Greenwald, Mayors in the Middle, which is really about the indirect Israeli control of Palestinian territories.

And she does that in a brilliant way, in a way that kind of brings home why it is a one-state reality.

The second book is by Omer Bartov.

Omer has a new book.

It's called Israel, What Went Wrong?

It's coming out this month.

I happened to read the galleys before it came out.

And it's a very powerful kind of interpretation of what happened in Israel, a country that was essentially in part built to protect Jews globally and in fact gets the opposite, where the Jews are more threatened.

And he has a brilliant take on it that I think is worth reading.

The third book is by Hossein Ara and Robert Malley, Tomorrow is Yesterday.

These are two seasoned analysts.

Robert Malley, of course, served in the U.S.

government for many years on Israel-Palestine as well as on Iran.