Adam Entous / New Yorker:
Donald Trump's New World Order
— How the President, Israel, and the Gulf states plan to fight
Iran—and leave the Palestinians and the Obama years behind. — On the
afternoon of December 14, 2016, Ron Dermer, Israel's Ambassador to the
United States, rode from his Embassy to the White House to attend a
Hanukkah party. The Obama Administration was in its final days,
and among the guests were some of the President’s most ardent Jewish
supporters, who were there to bid him farewell. But Dermer, like Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, did not share their sense of loss. For the
Israeli leadership, the Trump Presidency could not come soon enough.Netanyahu
believed that Barack Obama had “no special feeling” for the Jewish
state, as one of his aides once put it, and he resented Obama’s argument
that Israel’s treatment of the Palestinians was a violation of basic
human rights and an obstacle to security, not least for Israel itself.
He also believed that Obama’s attempt to foster a kind of balance of
power between Saudi Arabia and Iran in the Middle East was naïve, and
that it underestimated the depth of Iran’s malign intentions throughout
the region.
Part of the Obama Legacy was the empowerment of Iran, a country's whose primary agenda being the destruction of Israel. Trump brings in a new alignment of Middle East countries.
Part of the Obama Legacy was the empowerment of Iran, a country's whose primary agenda being the destruction of Israel. Trump brings in a new alignment of Middle East countries.
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