Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s visit to Washington on Tuesday can be a significant step forward for the Trump administration to stabilize the Middle East. Despite its loss of Syria and setbacks to its Hamas and Hezbollah proxies, Iran remains the key disruptive actor in the region. Tehran’s nuclear ambitions are very close to realization, and its quests for dominance in the Middle East and the destruction of Israel and America remain unchanged. Further aggravating this scenario, Iran just signed a mutual defense pact with Russia.

The United States and Israel can undermine Iranian-Russian objectives on two fronts. An Israeli-American partnership has emerged to bolster Ukraine’s defenses against Russian missiles and Iranian drones. The U.S. military has transferred about 90 decommissioned Patriot air defense interceptors from storage in Israel to Poland for delivery to Ukraine. This is the most significant supply of weapons from Israel to Ukraine since the Russian invasion. It demonstrates that Jerusalem calculates that Ukraine’s military resistance impedes Moscow’s capabilities to assist Iran.