Omer Bartov

Well, absolutely.

So the most important thing to understand is that the limits of Israeli power over the last few decades have been set in Washington, D.C., and not in Jerusalem.

And therefore, they're basically limitless in that area.

If they returned to Jerusalem, that Israel would have no choice but to opt for politics and diplomacy.

And right now, as we see, it's opting only for the use of bombs.

So that's crucial to understand.

That was what I was trying to suggest already in November 23, because the U.S.

could have stopped Israel's action in Gaza within a week or two.

We know that.

We know that now also because when President Trump tells Netanyahu stop doing it, Netanyahu stops because he knows that he has to.

But often that doesn't come up.

Now, I think...

It's possible that a new American administration, whether it's Democratic or Republican, will have a different attitude toward Israel for different reasons.

But within the Democratic Party, there are very strong currents now to change policy toward Israel because it has been so violent.

And the Republican Party now, within the MAGA movement, there are elements now that are speaking in somewhat also anti-Semitic terms, that's real anti-Semitism, that Israel is pulling all the strings of American policy, it's controlling finance, Hollywood...

the arms industry and so forth.

And whatever the reason is, it's possible that whether a Republican or Democratic president comes next time, there might be a very different policy toward Israel.

I think that would be a good thing.

I think it would finally make Israelis understand that they have to find a compromise how to share that space between 7 million Palestinians and 7 million Jews.

Well, I actually have always been against this notion.