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First came King Abdullah of Jordan. Now British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and French President Emmanuel Macron are slogging over to Washington to temper the passions of the man in the Oval Office. A pattern has been set. US President Donald Trump fires a salvo at the status quo on Palestine or Ukraine and the gatekeepers of that policy ask themselves: are Trump’s words for real? Or are these shock tactics, the opening gambit of a long period of haggling? A Palestinian negotiator likened Trump’s tweets to guns being fired at a tribal wedding: lots of noise, some of the guests could even get injured by falling bullets, but in the long run, no serious harm done.
Is this right? If you believe senior Egyptian sources, Trump was "attentive and sympathetic" to the Jordanian king’s pleas and an Egyptian alternative plan to Trump's mass population transfer is a real possibility.
If true, that scenario would lend support to the notion that Trump has spurred the Arab states into action. However, we have already seen how nothing Trump says or does with Israel is ephemeral.
When offered the opportunity, his successor Joe Biden pointedly refused to reverse the "achievements" of Trump’s first term of office, be they annexation of the Golan Heights, the moving of the US embassy to Jerusalem, the Abraham Accords, or indeed sanctions on Iran.
Rather, he built on the foundations Trump laid - with disastrous consequences.
Read here the full article by The Middle East Eye
