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Rafah Tunnels, Riyadh’s Trillion-Dollar Embrace, and Israel’s Shrinking Leverage
In this week’s Tel Aviv Diary, Marc Schulman opens with the tense standoff under Rafah, where a dwindling group of October 7th terrorists remain trapped in the tunnels as Israel methodically seals their exits and prepares for a final confrontation. From there, he shifts to Washington, tracing how the Saudi crown prince walked out of the White House with everything he wanted—F-35s, civilian nuclear understandings, and a headline “trillion-dollar” investment pledge—without offering normalization with Israel, and what that signals about Israel’s eroding political weight in both U.S. parties and…
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