Friedman: Why Israel’s Bibi Netanyahu is not our friend

Dear President Donald Trump,

There are very few initiatives that you’ve undertaken since coming to office that I agree with — except in the Middle East.

The fact that you are traveling there next week and meeting the leaders of Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Qatar — and that you have no plans to see Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Israel — suggests to me that you are starting to understand a vital truth: that this Israeli government is behaving in ways that threaten...