HOW TRUMP AND BREXIT PLAY INTO NETANYAHU'S HANDS

And this is not the only analysis showing that Israel will benefit from Brexit.

This was published 21 months ago.

We are now on the verge of a no-deal Brexit.

Conclusion?

Considering that Trump strongly supports no-deal Brexit and Israel put Trump in the White House?

There is only one conclusion.

Since Donald Trump’s election, Palestine campaigners have focused on new settlement construction, Israeli annexation of private Palestinian land and the apparent demise of the two-state solution.

But a broader confluence of interests between Trump’s America, Benjamin Netanyahu’s Israel and Theresa May’s Brexit Britain also deserves scrutiny.

Last year, Netanyahu’s major allies offered disaffected voters the dream of fiercely sovereign and self-reliant nations. But in reality, the future states they are peddling could end up looking like Israel: increasingly paranoid, isolated and ethnocentric countries walled off from their neighbors.

Should the US and UK continue their drift toward Israeli-style ethno-religious nationalism, the political and economic interests of the three countries will align still further. Tel Aviv could pick up the slack left by Trump’s rollback from global trade agreements and become an increasingly important partner for Britain as May grasps for new trade deals. Trump and May have already made significant overtures in this direction.

In turn, these trade opportunities could grant Israel greater political leverage, enabling it to become more of an independent (though junior) partner of the stumbling US superpower. Netanyahu will hope to ride out any global lurch towards economic isolationism, reaping economic and thus political capital.

[source : How Trump, Brexit play into Netanyahu’s hands, Electronic Intifada, https://electronicintifada.net/content/how-trump-brexit-play-netanyahus-hands/20041, 31st March 2017]