Israel too has a larger-than-life populist leader who’s changed the course of his country’s history. Their interests overlap but remain distinct. Case in point, Israel’s rush to prepare for an eventual ground operation in Lebanon. So which one’s calling the shots? Trump or Benjamin Netanyahu? Whose idea was this war?

And who takes the blame once the guns go silent on a campaign that’s failed to rally traditional allies, one that’s punished civilians by laying waste to critical infrastructure, one that’s triggered a worldwide energy crisis? What prospects then for Trump and his MAGA movement, Netanyahu, and for the state of Israel?

Produced by François Picard, Rebecca Gnignati, Juliette Laffont, Ilayda Habip, Charles Wente.

• Noga TARNOPOLSKY FRANCE 24 Jerusalem correspondent

• Gil MIHAELY Editor-in-Chief, Causeur

• Adam WEINSTEIN Researcher, Quincy Institute

• Jim TOWNSEND Former US Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for European and NATO Policy