Peace plan: Trump and Netanyahu at a joint news conference discussing Trump’s new Middle East peace plan proposal on Tuesday. — Reuters
IF anyone doubts President Donald Trump’s long awaited Israel-Palestine peace plan was mainly an election-oriented political document, he shattered those doubts on Tuesday.On the very day Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin “Bibi” Netan-yahu was indicted for bribery and fraud, and Trump’s impeachment trial was upended by firsthand evidence that he blackmailed the Ukraine, the American president rolled out his “deal of the century”.
In a stagey production replete with Trumpian hyperbole, as he stood alongside Netanyahu, the president was clearly pitching to his American evangelical base for the 2020 election – and pumping for Netanyahu in tight March 2 Israeli elections.
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