Over the course of his administration, President Biden has preserved key advances in the U.S.-Israel relationship,

advances that had been initiated by his predecessors. He is also inaugurated new dimensions of bilateral

cooperation and military interoperability.

Regular listeners of this program will remember, for instance, my conversation with the

Foreign Policy Analyst and Navy Reserve Officer Rich Goldberg, about one of those dimensions,

the unprecedented scale of the Juniper Oak Joint Military Exercises undertaken on the sea,

land, and air between the American and Israeli militaries.

Viewed from a certain perspective, military cooperation has never been stronger between Israel

and the United States.

But now, look at the situation in another light, and for a moment assess security threats

from Israel's point of view.

The single most dangerous adversary that Israel faces is Iran, which would be made all the

more dangerous if they're able to operationalize a nuclear weapon.

President Biden wanted, at the very beginning of his term, to try and prevent

that through diplomatic negotiation. After a while, administration officials expressed

impatience with that tack, and suggested instead that we were nearing the end of profitable

negotiations. Very recently, just in the past days and weeks, we've started hearing again that the Biden administration

is hopeful that we can reach some sort of understanding with Iran. Meanwhile, this whole time

Iranian nuclear development has been proceeding unabated and has exceeded all limits for what was

thought to be an American, to say nothing of a Saudi or Israeli, red line.

So the Americans have allowed Israel's single greatest adversary to grow in strength and confidence

without at all reversing or even containing its combative posture toward the Jewish state.

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