Anyone who voted against Kamala Harris last Tuesday to protest the Biden-Harris administration’s policy on the war in Gaza may soon feel the pangs of buyer’s remorse.

The first qualms might have come on Friday, when Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appointed Yechiel Leiter to be Israel’s new ambassador to the United States. Leiter is a prominent writer and activist in Israel’s settler movement. He advocates formally annexing the West Bank, the illegally occupied territory from which Israelis have steadily and forcibly displaced many Palestinians.

As both men have admitted, Donald Trump and Netanyahu have talked several times in the past few weeks. It is unlikely that Netanyahu would have appointed Leiter without getting a green light from Trump.