FROM ABU DHABI TO TEL AVIV: ISRAEL'S INTERNAL POLITICS NOW SHAKES MIDDLE EAST DIPLOMACY
📌 OPENING – WHEN DOMESTIC POLITICS BECOMES REGIONAL CRISIS Every country has internal political struggles. Coalitions form and collapse. Leaders rise and fall. Elections come and go. Normally, these struggles remain domestic. They affect citizens, markets, and perhaps neighboring countries. But they do not typically reshape regional diplomacy. Israel is different. Because Israel's internal politics — particularly the rivalry between Netanyahu and Bennett — has spilled across borders. It has poisoned relations with the UAE. It has delayed Saudi normalization. It has made every Arab capital more cautious about engaging with the Jewish state. What happens in Tel Aviv no longer stays in Tel Aviv. It reverberates in Abu Dhabi, Riyadh, Manama, and Cairo. And the damage is not temporary. It will outlast Netanyahu. It will outlast Bennett. It may outlast this entire generation of Israeli leaders. "Israel's political chaos is not just Israel's problem. It is the Middle East...