When It Comes to Israel, President Trump’s Realism Is Realistic
Peace isn’t a process.
February 27, 2018
Peace isn’t a process.
Among so-called foreign-policy “realists,” a longstanding contention has been that the American alliance with Israel is a burden, and damaging to U.S. interests. This perspective, which informed Barack Obama’s explicit desire to downgrade relations between Washington and Jerusalem, was decisively disproved by the experience of the Obama years. The administration of Donald Trump, writes John Podhoretz, having fully absorbed the lesson, has taken American policy in a radically different but truly realistic direction:
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Among so-called foreign-policy “realists,” a longstanding contention has been that the American alliance with Israel is a burden, and damaging to U.S. interests. This perspective, which informed Barack Obama’s explicit desire to downgrade relations between Washington and Jerusalem, was decisively disproved by the experience of the Obama years. The administration of Donald Trump, writes John Podhoretz, having fully absorbed the lesson, has taken American policy in a radically different but truly realistic direction:
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