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Diplomacy Arrives on a Crowded Political Calendar
· New York time
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth made an unannounced visit to Israel shortly before Benjamin Netanyahu's elections, while President Trump floated restarting the Iran war. The visit places U.S. defense diplomacy alongside consequential political and security questions. Timing matters, but a meeting is not itself an announced policy outcome. Officials face decisions with consequences beyond the election calendar, particularly as Washington considers its next steps toward Iran. Diplomatic calendars can compress enormous stakes into a single appointment. Unlike an ordinary scheduling conflict, this is not something resolved by moving the meeting to Thursday.
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