October 10, 2017 | Caroline Glick - The Jerusalem Post
Column One: Trump and Obama’s Third Term
In an interview with Walla news site Tuesday, Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman said that “the more active the US is [in the Middle East], the better it will be for Israel.”
On paper, Liberman’s sentiments seem reasonable enough. President Donald Trump is far friendlier than his predecessor Barack Obama was. The tone of US-Israel relations has vastly improved since Trump took office.
The problem is that substantively, there is no real difference between the two administrations – not in the Middle East and not anywhere.
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As Middle East analyst Tony Badran noted, the weapons the US supplied to the LAF “have been on Hezbollah’s shopping list consistently for almost a decade.”
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