When President Trump meets Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu today, their conversation should reflect a fundamental transformation over the past year. Israel has emerged from a status some have described as a U.S. “protectorate” to an exemplar – and regional pillar – of the Trump Doctrine.

It expects American allies to bear the principal burden of their own security, and – with U.S. material support – that of their neighborhoods, as well. 

None does that more effectively than Israel.

She has laid low her enemies and ours and is greatly enhancing our mutual interests in the eastern Mediterranean and Red Sea.

Let’s pray that the partnership thus forged between Messrs. Trump and Netanyahu will be further strengthened today and that, pursuant to the Trump Doctrine, this powerful bilateral alliance – not misbegotten deals with actual foes – will be the centerpiece of U.S. Mideast policy going forward.

This is Frank Gaffney.