Something that Americans are having to grapple with is the cross-directionality of radicalism in Israel and Iran. In Iran, you have a population that is tired of Islamic Revolution and placing extreme pressure on their regime to moderate. Hence the regime’s willingness to negotiate (even if haltingly) over its nascent nuke program in order to get sanctions relief. In Israel, you have a population that increasingly is national religious and revisionist (Kahanists and Likudniks) that are pushing a military-dominated government traditionally run by Euro-aligned Labour Zionists into ever-more extreme positions. Netanyahu is not an aberration — he’s a bulwark against more extremist leaders. Rabin, the Labour leader of the now-dead peace process, was assasinated not by a Palestinian but by a revisonist American Jewish person (with, ostensibly, backing by the Netanyahu camp). This dichotomy will play out in unexpected ways that will make American relations with both countries even wilder