Share to FacebookShare to XArticle printing is available to subscribers onlyPrint in a simple, ad-free formatSubscribeComments: Zen reading is available to subscribers onlyAd-free and in a comfortable reading formatSubscribe08:15 PM • June 21 2026 IDTThere were two diplomatic bombshells in the heart of Europe last week. Both of them – the tiff between Italy's Giorgia Meloni and U.S. President Donald Trump, and the decision by Netanyahu's foreign minister to sever contact with the EU's top foreign affairs official – were forged in political grandstanding, but both have significant, if depressing, lessons for Israel's present and future.In the NewsNetanyahu's Israel Needs to Lay Off the 'Blood Libel' AccusationAIPAC Identity Crisis: A Decade Since Fighting Obama on Iran, It Now Faces TrumpNetanyahu Orders Shin Bet Probe Israel's Channel 12 Over Alleged Iran War LeakHuckabee: Iran Will Be Unable to Support Proxies, U.S.-Israel Bond 'Unbreakable'Knesset Will Not Hold Revote After PM Personal Lawyer Elected State WatchdogRemembering and rebuilding two years laterICYMIHumiliated by Trump on the Iran Front, Netanyahu May Set the Middle East AblazeIsrael Is Conducting a Systematic Campaign of Ethnic Cleansing in the West Bank'Once-in-a-lifetime Discovery': 1,700-year-old Roman Busts Found in IsraelNetanyahu's Mouthpieces Turn on Trump, Revealing a Deeper Israeli IngratitudeTrump and Netanyahu Hurtling Toward a Rupture That Could Shock U.S.-Israel TiesIsrael Is Bleeding Support in U.S. and Pouring Tens of Millions to Change That