What Donald Trump did this week should terrify Benjamin Netanyahu. This is why | Jonathan Freedland

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

75% : Strikingly, in a shift that would have garnered huge attention had it been any other president but which, because it was Trump, was just one more turn of the news cycle, Trump welcomed Syria in from the cold.
65% : What's more, Trump showed Riyadh all this love with none of the previous strings attached.
65% : Trump said Prince Mohammed could do that when he was good and ready, free of US pressure.
51% : Part of this is born of frustration with Netanyahu for failing to play his part in getting the Middle East to the stability, and therefore prosperity, that Trump thinks is possible and potentially profitable for the US.
51% : Until that day, their lives are in the hands of Donald Trump.
50% : Trump is now in the business of cutting the deals he wants, regardless of the needs of the US's one-time key ally.
44% : That could have been explained away but for what Trump said and did on his travels.
42% : Trump made nice with Recep Tayyip Erdoğan of Turkey, unfazed by the latter's hostility to Israel and close ties to Hamas.
34% : Trump could continue what he started this week, making deals across the Middle East that cut out Israel, but that also do nothing for Palestinians.
30% : Indeed, Trump declared that the US has "no stronger partner" than Saudi Arabia, a status that used to belong to Israel alone.
28% : Put simply, what Trump wants from Netanyahu is to get the war on Hamas wrapped up and off the world's TV screens - and the Israeli PM is not delivering.
22% : As loudly and clearly as he can, Trump is telling Netanyahu that he is no longer No 1 and that he will not get in the way of whatever Trump decides best serves US, and his own, interests.
21% : Confirming that one of Trump's great weaknesses as a negotiator is his tendency to give something for nothing, Trump handed all this to Sharaa without even raising the security assurances sought by Israel.
13% : And yet the clearest, and perhaps only, way out of the current agony lies with Donald Trump - and his growing impatience with an ever-more isolated Israel.

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