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December 22, 2017

The New White House National-Security Strategy Is Good News for Israel, and for America

It acknowledges that the Israel-Palestinian conflict is not “the prime irritant preventing peace and prosperity” in the Middle East.

While one might expect that a self-described “America First” foreign policy would be isolationist and, given the term’s history, hostile toward Jews, the lengthy strategy paper recently produced by the Trump administration is neither. Rather, writes Jonathan Tobin, if you “strip away the Trumpian braggadocio [that accompanied the document’s release], what you find are policy guidelines that are remarkably realistic in terms not only of the challenges facing the United States but those facing Israel as well.” He writes:

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