Here's one thing Trump did right
The Trump administration helped Israel broker three normalization-of-relations deals with Arab nations all before striking an Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement. That went against the conventional wisdom of top foreign policy minds in the US.
In 2016, for instance, then-Secretary of State John Kerry said “there will be no advanced and separate peace with the Arab world without the Palestinian process and Palestinian peace. Everybody needs to understand that.”
Trump and his team clearly decided — and proved — that view was wrong. Israel now has improved relations with the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, and Sudan because of the administration’s efforts.
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The Trump administration helped Israel broker three normalization-of-relations deals with Arab nations all before striking an Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement. That went against the conventional wisdom of top foreign policy minds in the US. I hope you're not being serious. Trump did more damage to Arab-Israeli relations than any other president in world history. After he de facto declared Jerusalem to be the capital of Israel 41 people died. There were literally thousands of demonstrators in Gaza going mad about his supposed "Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement", which essentially just translated into giving Israel everything it wants under direct threat of economic sanctions for anybody who disagrees. Side: Wait..., what? No!
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and most military people, disagree. Anybody with any common sense agrees. Trump was so far up Netanyahu's corrupt arse that he just did whatever the guy wanted, including tearing up the Iran deal, putting maximum economic pressure on Iran like it was still 1985, and even a grovelling political advert for Netanyahu's last election campaign. Side: Wait..., what? No!
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