NR Daily: Trump in the Middle East: Note Who Curses America, and Who Blesses It

President Donald Trump has promised that in the Middle East under his presidency, "there are many things that can happen now that would never have happened before." Two speeches of the last ten days offer dramatic confirmation of the emerging reconfiguration of America's relationship with Israel and the Middle East under his leadership. In a two-hour speech before the Council of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) last week, Mahmoud Abbas, president of the Palestinian Authority, denounced the British, Dutch, French, and Americans for having conspired, ever since the 1650s, to create a Jewish colonial outpost that would "erase the Palestinians from Palestine ...

January 23 2018

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