After the onset of the Second Yom Kippur war in Gaza, reactions from the radical left pro-Palestinian flank spearheaded by Omar, Tlaib et al. were as clear as a thousand suns for Oppenheimer.

And thus Dem party, where nominal leaders are mostly of Jewish and/or Eastern European ancestry, invoked additional line of schism inside itself, which could turn out into a permanent wound. The task was admittedly hard, but achievable.

Netanyahu seems to take a bet that the said wound will have been stitched. Crusader states in the Levant and Palestine once took a similar bet that balance of power in Syria would have been set in stone. To wit, Amalric I swore fealty to the Emperor of Byzantium hoping to get the support of the latter after Saladin had begun military career. It turned out that, for Byzantium, crusader oaths were of lesser significance than clashes against Venice, even after Egypt, Damascus, and Aleppo had fallen to Saladin.

I’d say that the fate of the Kingdom of Jerusalem might provide a couple of cues for Netanyahu today, besides the art of vaulting on the tiger’s back.