In Ljubljana, thousands gathered to resist what they saw as a betrayal of conscience: Slovenia's new Prime Minister Janez Jansa, barely two months in office, opened Israel's first embassy in the European Union — dismantling in weeks the pro-Palestine policies his predecessor had spent years building. The moment crystallized a widening fault line not only within Slovenia, where a majority opposes the shift, but across the Western world, where allies are simultaneously moving in opposite directions on Israel. History rarely moves in straight lines, and this embassy — celebrated by some as partne