Sachs, a University Professor and Director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University, goes on to say that he hopes that Trump breaks with US open support for Israel’s extremism. Israel should either live peacefully next door to Palestine, or the entirety of Palestine (meaning Israel, Gaza, West Bank and Jerusalem) should become a bi-national state with two nationalities living peacefully within it, he notes in an interview to Open.
For his part, acclaimed investigative journalist Seymour Hersh also shares the view that bonhomie is over. He wrote on Substack arguing why President Donald Trump has “walked away from a postwar alliance dating back almost eight decades by telling Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu that America’s romance with Israel is over … Trump has told the New York Times and its columnists who bemoan what they fear will be a bereft and vulnerable Israel, in constant peril from a potential Iranian nuclear weapon, that Israel is on its own.”