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Can Israel embrace America’s vision of a ‘new Middle East’?

It’s decision time for Israel. And the question it faces goes beyond the immediate challenge of how to hit back against Iran’s barrage of missiles and drones last weekend.

It is a choice about Israel’s future relations with its Mideast neighbors and the wider world.

That decision – between permanent Israeli rule over the Palestinians of the occupied West Bank and the lure of a historic, U.S.-mediated peace with Saudi Arabia – is one Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was wrestling with through much of

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