Macron Serving as Trump’s ‘Bad Cop’ to Pressure Israel
byMacron’s role in Trump’s plan is clever as it allows the American president to maintain his “pro-Israel” image while forcing Netanyahu to comply with Washington’s two-state agenda.
Macron’s role in Trump’s plan is clever as it allows the American president to maintain his “pro-Israel” image while forcing Netanyahu to comply with Washington’s two-state agenda.
Senior White House officials have said that the president’s secret plan includes significant provisions that will likely create political challenges for Netanyahu.
At such moments it becomes easier and more politically savvy for Netanyahu to play up the security-minded western conservative feature of his political identity and tone down his inner ideological Jewish nationalist.
Netanyahu, once regularly criticized for antagonizing Washington but now enjoying a surge of domestic popularity due to his seemingly close relationship with Trump, was in no position to reject the president’s statements.
By now we should know that peace won’t come to this region through imposing Western nation-state structures and drawing neat lines that separate peoples from their identities and sacred lands.
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