The best, most concise statement of how people ought to think about Israel came from veteran national security reporter and analyst Eli Lake on Friday when he told me on my program that the world needs to understand the Jewish state as an “intelligence superpower.”

Lake is the equal of any American reporter assessing U.S.-Israel relations. Even as Europe gets dumber about and more hostile to Israel, the United States must get smarter about the equal of any of its allies.

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Along with the U.S., China, and Russia, Israel is in the genuine “superpower” quartet of nations that possess nuclear weapons, an extraordinary military,

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