The president of the Israeli entity is presented in US media as a moderate

"Rivlin emphasizes that his ideological worldview is the “Jabotinskyite view. In his seminal essay ‘The Iron Wall,’ [Ze’ev] Jabotinsky said that when the people of Israel return to their land, the Arabs will not be willing to accept us – for the reasons that are clear to us today, too. Therefore, we will need to build an iron wall around us. The nature of an iron wall is that if you try to destroy it, you only exhaust yourself. When we see that the Arabs around us have truly exhausted themselves, then we will open the doors,” says Rivlin. "