Benjamin Netanyahu’s hubris is a risk to U.S. leadership

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R. David Harden is the former assistant administrator at USAID’s bureau for democracy, conflict and humanitarian assistance. He led USAID operations in the West Bank and Gaza, Iraq and Yemen from 2005 to 2018. In March, 2010, my son and I were on the lawn of the American Consulate in Jerusalem, waiting for then-vice-president Joe Biden to arrive. But as he was landing, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government announced it was building 1,600 houses in traditionally Arab East Jerusalem – an announcement that seemed timed to embarrass Mr. Biden just as Barack Obama’s administration was holding negotiations between the...