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America’s Incompetent Middle East Leadership
America never misses an opportunity to miss an opportunity to bring peace to the Middle East.
Because of its obsession with supporting Israel at any cost, America never misses an opportunity to miss an opportunity. This has never been more apparent than now, as President Donald Trump’s Middle East hit team bulldozes forward with yet another step in what has been coined “the Deal of the Century.”
The hit team comprises three corporate lawyers, all with no relevant political or diplomatic training or basic historic knowledge of the area they are addressing. All three are proud public cheerleaders for the school of political thought of the most extremist elements in Israeli society, that of the likes of Yigal Amir, the Jewish extremist who on November 4, 1995, assassinated Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin for entering the Oslo “peace process”. One team member, in particular, was Trump’s bankruptcy lawyer and is currently the U.S. Ambassador to Israel, David Friedman. He is a material supporter of the Israeli settlement next to my house, the Beit El Settlement.
From the presidential campaign trail, Trump began beating his war drum against Palestinians. From his first day in office, his approach to the Palestinians resembled that of a bull in a china shop…
