Right, so Itamar Ben-Gvir, Israel’s far-right minister for making every situation somehow more grotesque than it already was, had a big brave message for the United States.

Israel is not subject to America, apparently.

Trump’s deal does not bind us, apparently.

Israel is sovereign, independent, answerable to nobody, all very stirring stuff if you like your diplomacy delivered in the tone of a man shouting at a traffic warden.

Lovely.

Except there is one tiny little bit of American power Ben-Gvir does still appear to be subject to.

Not the President. Not the State Department. Not Congress.

No appropriate sanction regime he’s well overdue for inflicted by people who appear to have suddenly discovered the concept of principles.

No, no.

It was a visa desk.

It was a form.

It was a reque ...