the driver s seat, it s controlling its own policies, but what the u.n. security council vote shows us is how profoundly isolated they are and how dependent israel is on its relationship with the united states and with incoming trump administration which i think for all of the happiness that many in israel professed for the trump the incoming trump administration, there s also very deep concern about how trump will handle israel and the middle east peace process. jeffrey, why make yourself more isolated? well, first of all, israel isn t isolated. israel has the best relations it s ever had in the arab world. it has good trading relations with china. it has in depth dialogue with russia, particularly over syria. the problem is israel is isolated in the u.n. it has always been isolated in the u.n. the difference this time is the united states allowed the u.n. vote to go forward. normally the u.s. blocks it. that is the difference. it s not something new about