Whatever the details of this deal ultimately are, Israel needs to learn a major lesson from how this has unfolded - both about the personal relationship between Netanyahu and Trump, and about the broader relationship between Israel and the United States.
The war that began on February 28 was, in many ways, the ultimate illustration of an alliance: Israeli and American officers sitting together, planning operations, poring over intelligence, while Israeli and US F-15s, F-16s and F-35s flew side by side, even refueling one another with each other’s tankers. It was an extraordinary demonstration of how true allies operate.
So how did we get from there to Trump saying, just in the last 24 hours, that Netanyahu has no judgment and is reckless?
That is the question we Israelis should be asking. Because understanding how this relationship flipped in the span of just three months may be one of the most important lessons of this war.