Loved or hated, Trump stamped his face on the Mideast conflict


  • World
  • Sunday, 08 Nov 2020

FILE PHOTO: Likud party supporters, one wearing a mask depicting U.S. President Donald Trump, hold election campaign placards, one depicting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, as they walk past stalls in Mahane Yehuda Market in Jerusalem April 7, 2019. The placard reads in Hebrew: "Netanyahu Protector of Israel" REUTERS/Ronen Zvulun/File Photo

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - "God Bless You Donald and Melania" read the poster hanging over an Israeli highway during the U.S. election campaign. In nearby Palestinian areas, anti-Trump graffiti adorned walls.

Perhaps nowhere outside his own country did President Donald Trump polarise opinion more than in Israel and the Palestinian Territories, where to many he was either hero or villain.

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