There’s a whole bunch of conditions for the old visa, (eg . You need to ‘create’ 10 jobs, invest in certain areas, etc) which presumably wouldn’t apply to this one.

So just multiply the amount of fraud compared to the existing visa by 5x as well.

The US already has this: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/EB-5_visa . Trump is just rebranding the same thing and making it sound like it’s a new idea.

The more extreme elements of the Israeli government want to expand Israel to the borders of the previous empire at its biggest (not sure if that’s based on biblical sources or actual reality, but that doesn’t matter to those people anyway). Their ambitions go far beyond ‘just having a safe country for Jews’.

And I guess if every country around them is in civil war they can’t really pose a threat to Israel beyond the occasional suicide bombing.

He’s had shitty cards this whole time, but he played them as well as you could reasonably expect. In the past he’s been able to placate Trump, but I guess now his ask was just too big. Now he basically has to hope Europe continues support (at least for long enough to have a deal that doesn’t completely split the country).