Henry Kissinger

Benjamin Netanyahu knows exactly how to handle Donald Trump. He understands Trump’s insatiable thirst for flattery and spectacle — the craving of a man desperate to be the center of attention. For now, Netanyahu rides high, extracting every concession from a U.S. president eager to declare himself the architect of a “new Middle East.” But can such personal vanity sustain Trump’s extravagant optimism about what he calls his “roadmap for peace”? Or will the path ahead prove as perilous and uneven as history suggests to any sober observer of Middle Eastern politics?