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Source: https://www.israelhayom.com/2021/09/13/pms-efforts-to-defend-israels-interests-were-undermined/
How to Maintain U.S. Support for Israel
(Israel Hayom) Former Israeli Ambassador to the U.S. Ron Dermer interviewed by Ariel Kahana - "The thing that will hurt our relationship with the United States is if we are weak and we display weakness. With [the 1993] Oslo [accords] and the [2005] disengagement [from Gaza], people thought that if we withdrew, the world would support us. We got a short round of applause, but we paid a very heavy price. When we moved to defend ourselves, support for us disappeared very quickly." "That's the reason why it's very important to increase our might. The more our equity grows in the eyes of the Americans, the greater the chances that they will be on our side. If in the future we find ourselves in a situation where a president wants to re-evaluate ties with Israel and the head of the CIA tells him that a rift with Israel would endanger the national security of the United States because it would lose critical intelligence, and the president hears the same from the national cyber and artificial intelligence director, and others, we will know that we have succeeded." Q: What does it mean to be "pro-Israel"? "The question is whether you want to believe the good about Israel or the worst about Israel. Being pro-Israel means wanting to believe the best about Israel and demanding the burden of proof from our enemies."