Israel will be advised to look before they leap and adopt a policy of Making Israel Reciprocal Again
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nother piece of conventional wisdom is that Trump has waited far too long to release his “deal of the century.” November 2020 is 18 months away and after his plan makes its initial splash, he will get too bogged down in his reelection campaign to push for Middle East peace.
Others contend that Trump stands little chance of being reelected and that any one of the zany Democratic progressives who replaces him will burn the plan in a barrel of Iranian oil shortly after taking the oath of office.
These, too, are risky if not foolhardy assumptions.
Number one, Trump does not have to carry the banner for his plan — Kushner, Greenblatt, and Friedman can do the heavy lifting. They have invested more than two years of work in this plan and they’re not going to drop it like a lead weight at the first signs of resistance.
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