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Trump’s Diplomacy Under the Microscope

JL;DR SUMMARY Cindy Scarr scrutinizes the Trump administration's foreign policy regarding Iran and its implications for Israel and the broader Middle East. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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Trump AdministrationMiddle EastIranNetanyahuTurkeyDiplomacyUs Foreign PolicyElectionsRegional Instability

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Jerusalem, Israel
"According to Dr. Yossi Mansharof, an expert in Shiite political Islam at the Jerusalem-based Misgav Institute, this hostility has been a cornerstone of the regimes thought and a defining element of its ideological architecture since the 1953 US-sponsored coup that centralized power under the Shah of Iran."
Turkey
"Turkey is watching the whole Iran war very carefully, and one thing that theyve concluded is that America doesnt have the will to maintain its global power status, not in Europe and not in the Middle East, Wurmser said."
Greece
"Erdogan has also escalated his threats against other rivals. At an Endowment for Middle East Truth (EMET) webinar last week, David Wurmser, a senior analyst for Middle East affairs at the Center for Security Policy, told EMET founder Sarah Stern that Turkey might start a war with Greece and Cyprus in the near future, emboldened by projections of American weakness."
Cyprus
"Erdogan has also escalated his threats against other rivals. At an Endowment for Middle East Truth (EMET) webinar last week, David Wurmser, a senior analyst for Middle East affairs at the Center for Security Policy, told EMET founder Sarah Stern that Turkey might start a war with Greece and Cyprus in the near future, emboldened by projections of American weakness."
Ohio, United States
"That is essentially what Vice President J.D. Vance said on Fox News last week."
Washington, Washington DC, United States
"When a reporter asked Trump at an Oval Office news conference whether there was a chance of a conflict between Turkey and Israel, he shrugged it off, praised Erdogan as a strong leader, said he had not heard the latest comments, and added that he would call him if he did: I dont think that [war] will happen with Turkey, not as long as Im president, because he respects me and I respect him."
Israel
"Netanyahu has often been accused of interfering in American elections by taking sides, and Trump would be wiser to stay out of Israels internal politics."
Iran
"Iranian defiance grows when the US eases military and political pressure."

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