Benn on Biden and Bibi

Aluf Benn in a concise, pellucid analysis says Biden's bombshell (perhaps an exaggerated characterization, but it has an impact) came in recompense for Bibi's concession on two-states-for-two-peoples. Although a U.S. learning curve about the nature of the Tehran regime seems also to play a part, Benn's point is important. Talk of an Arab state between the Jordan and the Mediterranean is always lamentable and dangerous; it would be a recipe for problems, and a Palestinian state already exists anyway across the Jordan. Note, though, that the Obama administration was willing to use the Iranian issue, particularly the existential threat to Israel, as blackmail power to get Bibi to bend on the Palestinian state. In turn, some on the Right in Israel don't understand that Bibi likely had no alternative but to give in, increasing the still-hypothetical threat of a west-of-the-Jordan Arab state in return for greater U.S. "understanding" on the Iranian-nukes issue, a much more real, imminent, and grave threat.