Tag: Benjamin Netanyahu

If this electoral gridlock [in domestic policy] does occur, it may well result in Trump — like several other reelected presidents of recent decades — increasingly turning to foreign policy.

It would be a mistake to assume that Netanyahu dictates Trump’s Middle East agenda. It would also be a mistake to allow Netanyahu to tailor American priorities to Israel’s political and military actions in Gaza, Lebanon, and Syria.

[T]rump doesn't do anything for free. He wants something from Egypt.

It is either the American “applying pressure” or the Israeli “being pressured,” per the ubiquitous epithets of the moment.

Even in the earlier "Deal of the Century," Benjamin Netanyahu steered Donald Trump toward a Bar-Ilan-style bear hug: first applying Israeli law to parts of the territories, and only afterward offering a "minus Arab state."

Netanyahu's team ... has no interest in the ceasefire nor in the success of the American plan.

... Netanyahu and his government consistently bet on war.

There is an occupation that must end, a people that must be liberated, and a Palestinian state that must be established within its full borders.

[T]he United States has had the final word in restraining excesses and the reckless conduct of Israel.

Trump’s narcissism and desperate desire to be seen globally as a peacemaker worthy of a Nobel Prize compelled him to cling to this plan.