Joshua Muravchik is a fellow at the Foreign Policy Institute of the Johns Hopkins University School for Advanced International Studies and a contributor to this magazine. He is also author of 11 books, including the recently published Making David into Goliath: How the World Turned Against Israel. I spoke with Muravchik about how Israel went from underdog to pariah, and the chances of that changing back anytime soon.

Lee Smith: You say the world has turned against Israel, but aren’t Israel and the Gulf states, like Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, closer than ever because of Iran?