Alastair Crooke - Trump Morphs From Asset to Liability for Israel

Alastair Crooke - Trump morphs from asset to liability for Israel

Perhaps, Israel is now realising that ‘realities in the region’ have changed Alastair Crooke is a former British diplomat, founder and director of the Beirut-based Conflicts Forum Cross-posted from the Strategic Culture online journal This file is a work of an employee of the Executive Office of the President of the United States, taken or made as part of that person’s official duties. As a work of the U.S. federal government, it is in the publi…

Trump morphs from asset to liability for Israel

Perhaps, Israel is now realising that ‘realities in the region’ have changed. Leading Israeli commentator, Anna Barsky, in Ma’ariv (in Hebrew) writes: “Let [Trump’s] plan in Gaza – fail”. “An Israeli ‘waiting ploy’ is being formulated: not to hurl out a frontal rejection … [but rather] to bet that reality in the region will take its course”. “[Yet], the fault line [over] Trump’s Gaza Plan is real … Israel demands a clear order: First, the disarm…