Trump on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: I Got This
Given his incoherency on just about every conceivable issue other than torture, one of the few interesting policy-related mysteries of Donald Trump’s flabbergasting campaign for the presidency is his exact definition of U.S. “neutrality” in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, a concept he endorsed during a Republican debate in February without bothering to explain what he thinks this actually means.
Missing from Trump’s self-described “neutral” approach to the conflict were specific details (not that that should surprise anyone at this point). Trump has never shown any evidence of thinking about whether the Palestinian Authority can or even should be coaxed into ceding Israel control over the West Bank settlement of Ariel under a final peace agreement, or about the compensation of Palestinian refugees and their descendants, or Hamas’s role in a future Palestinian government, or about how to overcome the Palestinian Authority’s various negotiating preconditions.
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