“Why has the PR been so awful?… typically the Israelis are good at PR—what’s happened here, how have they and we been so ineffective at communicating the realities and our POV?… some wonder why there was such overwhelming support for us to shut down potentially TikTok.”
I’m a historian of US foreign relations and modern international politics, and there is literally no other political situation anywhere in the world in the last 130 years where the US said it has no leverage and can do nothing to shape the behavior of another state.