That old textbook formula for the modest role of a ceremonial head of state in a democracy should be due for a makeover. I have frequently complained to myself that current society and politics are drenched with people campaigning, but not thinking. The Middle East is only one case where that leaves problems depending too much on brute strength for solution. In that case the result is liable to be failure to find (or seek) a compromise between recognition of a Palestinian state without the condition that it be led by people who understand the need for peace with Jews, and refusal to recognise a Palestinian state at all. But in other cases the problem can be crazy identities.
For instance, the growing tendency to treat climate change as part of 'progressive' or 'woke' ideology is both stupid and dangerous. The physical properties of carbon dioxide and methane do not respond to cultural trends.
Many people are now vaguely aware that, since the mid-20th century, humans really can destroy themselves in toto without any prompting from apocalyptic mythology. Yet it takes more than bluster from Putin and Medeyev to get the point taken seriously. What can help is for professional specialists in fields ranging from diplomacy to ecology to economics to join together and warn (not instruct) both the general public and governments, as well as themselves, about bigotries and stupid demarcations. Especially now it would be fatal for them to be seen as a Jason Brennan (Plato) style 'epistocracy' - after all, professional elites can be as blinkered as anyone. Instead, they must find a new development for that textbook - and modest - role for a constitutional monarch.