Israel's situation in the world seems worse than ever. This is a consensus in the Foreign Ministry, among ambassadors, in the IDF. There is one who disagrees: Benjamin Netanyahu. When was our situation worse, we were asked this week.
AMIT SEGAL -- Quite a few times, he replied. For example? A year ago, during the Biden administration. To understand this answer, one must remember that for Netanyahu, what is called "the world" is only a very small area, two and a quarter kilometers in diameter: between Capitol Hill and 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, between Capitol Hill and the White House.
If the world map were to be drawn according to the attention from Israel, Washington would be the size of Europe, and Europe - a remote island in the Pacific Ocean.
And in Washington terms, Netanyahu says, last year we were in a de facto arms embargo, the president fought against the IDF operation in Rafah, his deputy boycotted the prime minister's speech in Congress, his administration was not informed about the pager operation and the assassination of Nasrallah so that he would not thwart them through a leak. According to this, everything in Washington is now a dream. The problem is, of course, that even dreams wake up.