The World Cup in Qatar and the annual conference in Washington of J Street, the liberal Zionist lobbying group, occurred half a world apart. Their global significance is hugely disparate. Yet, together, they highlighted both the extent to which the Biden administration is out of touch with popular sentiment internationally and the bankruptcy of its policy on Israel/Palestine.

The so-called Negev Summit hosted by Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid last week, attended by the foreign ministers of the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Egypt and Morocco, along with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, signified Israel's full partnership in a consolidated axis of reactionary powers in the Middle East.