Israel won the war, but the peace is being signed without it

MembersIsrael won the war, but the peace is being signed without it

If no ally will write the red lines of the Jewish state into a deal, then it has no choice but to become the guarantor of its own security, and, by extension, of the regional order that its security requires.

Gregg Roman

Jun 18, 2026 at 1:00 pm

| Topics: Iran

(JNS) Washington will sign its deal with Tehran in Geneva on Friday, a text that Jerusalem was never shown. Ahead of next week’s JNS International Policy Summit, the chair of its forum on the international arena argues that an abandonment, faced honestly, is also an argument.

In Switzerland on Friday, the vice president of the United States will officially put his name to a 14-point memorandum with the Islamic Republic of Iran. The text is no longer a rumor with a price tag; Al Arabiya and Bloomberg have published it, and we can read it in order.

I have read it. What I cannot find anywhere in its 14 points is the word that started the war: missiles. Nor the network that carried the war across the region: the proxies. Nor the country that did most of the fighting, and most of the bleeding, to bring Tehran to...

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