Right From Wrong: Will Trump back Israel in the next war?

Analysts on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean – and of the political spectrum – have been scrutinizing every syllable uttered by members of the new administration in Washington to determine whether US President Donald Trump is as good a friend to the Jewish state as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hopes.

So far, four issues have been discussed and debated ad nauseam: US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley’s pronouncement that her government would not abandon Israel at the world body, as the Obama administration did when it enabled the passage of Security Council Resolution 2234; the nomination of David Friedman as US ambassador to Israel; a recent Trump administration warning that Israeli settlement construction could be potentially harmful to peace negotiations toward Palestinian statehood; and the omission of any mention of Jews in the statement issued by the administration on International Holocaust Remembrance Day.

 

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