In this new phase of Trump’s foreign policy, uneasiness about his unreliability is hardening into understanding that overexposure to the whims of his regime is straight-up dangerous, because there is no degree of investment in him that will bear fruit.[…] And when it comes to Israel, Trump[…] simply does not have the attention span to prevent the conflict from sprawling in ways that are increasingly redrawing the physical and political map of the Middle East. He is a lazy and capricious emperor, sitting on the heap of a nation roiled by violence and crisis.

— Nesrine Malik (highlight mine)