“There’s never a dull moment, it’s either a scandal or a festival.” That’s the Naomi Shemer line that came to mind this weekend, watching the most recent installment of “Has Trump Turned His Back on Israel?”

This week’s installment: the Turks, ruled ineligible for the F-35 program over their Russian S-400s and direct support to Hamas. It follows the last episode, the Saudi nuclear file, which closed on a similar good-for-Israel twist—not unless they normalize with Israel first.

For all the ink spilled, the U.S.-Israel relationship looks far more resilient than many believed and some hoped. The turn that launched a thousand speculation pieces began with the MoU and Vance’s press campaign. On Fox News, he insisted that “the Israelis and the United States have a lot of shared interests, but we also have some situations where our interests diverge.” When someone states the obvious, listeners search for the less obvious implication—namely, where, precisely, those interests were meant to diverge.