Following Mideast news requires a certain tolerance for the pain of whiplash. Fresh off of Western news cycles built around the narrative that Bibi Netanyahu is somehow puppeteering the Trump administration’s foreign policy, in Israel the prime minister is under fire for being a puppet of the American president. “A pattern is developing where a cease-fire is being forced upon us — in Gaza, in Iran, and now in Lebanon,” said Gadi Eisenkot, the former IDF chief of staff who has turned to politics.