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Politics : View from the Center and Left Middle East Annex
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From: S. maltophilia8/1/2025 8:24:29 PM
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On Trump, Gaza, and the Perils of a Blank Check for Israel

Is the President flip-flopping on Israel’s war, or just muddling through?

By Susan B. Glasser
July 31, 2025

.....But by Thursday, Trump was back in a familiar role—not only defending Israel but explicitly linking his economic policies to continued support for it. “Wow!,” Trump posted on his social-media site, “Canada has just announced that it is backing statehood for Palestine. That will make it very hard for us to make a Trade Deal with them. Oh’ Canada!!!” In the intervening days, Trump had dispatched his all-purpose envoy, Steve Witkoff, to Israel, prepared a new round of sanctions on the Palestinian Authority, and let it be known that recognizing Palestine was equivalent to giving Hamas a victory. An easy but insufficient explanation for the wild reversals is that this is just Trump being Trump, a creature of the news cycle, whose attention is captured by horrific pictures emanating from a war zone on a Monday but whose opportunistic cynicism causes him to take an entirely different stance a few days later when he senses an opening in a hard-fought negotiation.

But casting this as merely the flip-flopping of a noted flip-flopper strikes me as a bit beside the point.Trump’s....

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