Expect the unexpected—that’s the way it’s been all along with the new President, and it’s the best approach to take when predicting what may happen during his trip to Israel.
Israel's standing among political progressives continues to slump - a trend increasingly evident in research survey results and across college campuses. But the lone liberal democracy in the Middle East has a strong case to be made to progressives. We just need to do it.
The German mindset towards Israel is predicated on the mistaken assumption that solving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is the transformative solution that will bring peace and prosperity to the Middle East. But a reset of this ideology is urgently overdue.