Can President Trump Break Free of Conventional Wisdom about the Peace Process?
In U.S. foreign policy, there is no fouler cesspool than this.
May 22, 2017
In U.S. foreign policy, there is no fouler cesspool than this.
President Trump arrives in Israel today on the heels of a series of seeming fissures in his administration’s promising relationship with the Jewish state. First, a low-level American diplomat stated that the Western Wall is not part of Israel; when asked, National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster then declined to express an opinion on the issue. Thereafter, Prime Minister Netanyahu was reportedly requested not to be on hand at the president’s upcoming visit to the Western Wall. Lee Smith comments:
In U.S. foreign policy, there is no fouler cesspool than this.
No more misguided efforts to strengthen a band of faux “moderates.”
The latest in Netanyahu’s pivot to Asia.
A story.
Once portrayed on screen by Gregory Peck.
President Trump arrives in Israel today on the heels of a series of seeming fissures in his administration’s promising relationship with the Jewish state. First, a low-level American diplomat stated that the Western Wall is not part of Israel; when asked, National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster then declined to express an opinion on the issue. Thereafter, Prime Minister Netanyahu was reportedly requested not to be on hand at the president’s upcoming visit to the Western Wall. Lee Smith comments:
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