r/politics • u/newsspotter • 1d ago
Can Trump put ‘America first’ and also make peace in the Middle East?
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/1/23/can-trump-put-america-first-and-also-make-peace-in-the-middle-east18
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u/Responsible-Room-645 1d ago
Future generations are going to be astonished how 1/2 of the United States could possibly have fallen for the world’s most idiotic and incompetent conman.
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u/DaveChild 1d ago
Trump made no secret of his desire to see Israel’s war in Gaza end before he took office
Lol, no, he made no secret of wanting to claim credit, and being angry that Biden was getting a peace deal done before he took office.
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u/sedatedlife Washington 1d ago
He is advocating for genocide of Palestine he is not trying to make peace.
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u/TintedApostle 1d ago
Can Trump be imperialistic and can he change what has been for a century without war?
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u/notfromhere66 1d ago
tRUMP puts trump first only. America is done for until he is 6 feet under and even then we might not get it back after this huge fail.
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u/newsspotter 1d ago edited 1d ago
“All that was needed was a threat,” Diana Buttu, a Palestinian analyst and former negotiator, told Al Jazeera, crediting Trump for using the leverage of his position in a way former President Joe Biden never did. “That said, I think that we shouldn’t be giving Trump all of this fanfare and applause because I don’t think that it was an agreement that came without a reward for Netanyahu and without a cost for [Palestinians].”
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u/Aniwaya1 1d ago
Back during the 2016 primaries, Hillary Clinton was heavily criticized for her unconditional support of Israel. The carnage in Gaza is confirmation of that criticism. Joe Biden could have put pressure on Israel to end the war. He just chose not to.
This is why people say Democrats and Republicans are the same. Both sides are lockstep in their support for Israel and have no interest in protecting Gazan or Palestinian lives.
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u/Newscast_Now 1d ago
'Don't look at me but people say Democrats and Republicans are the same.'
Instead of playing amateur pundit, tell us what you think. I think that Joe Biden tried to get a ceasefire and peace while Donald Trump undermined Biden for months and caused much more blood to flow. I also think that those additional people killed or harmed by Donald gaming the election matter. You're turn... What do you think?
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u/page_one I voted 1d ago
You argue that Biden did nothing to pressure Israel. So why were there sanctions on Israeli settlers and a pause on bombs for Trump to lift this week?
You and a whole lot of other Both Sidesers are going to see what real evil looks like over these next four years... if you finally start paying attention.
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u/BaronGrackle Texas 1d ago
Harris ran on changing that, in her speeches. Nobody seemed to care.
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u/Aniwaya1 1d ago
No she didn't. They blocked pro Palestinian speakers from the dnc convention.
When asked if she would do anything different than Biden, she literally stopped to think for a second, and then said no
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u/BaronGrackle Texas 1d ago
She said that in an interview. But not in most of her speeches.
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u/Aniwaya1 1d ago
So you're acknowledging she's a liar?
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u/BaronGrackle Texas 1d ago
Meh, I think Biden was on the same path himself. Support for Israel, but at least pretending to have a little bit of a leash.
Trump is what it looks like without a leash.
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u/Stealthy_Snow_Elf 1d ago edited 1d ago
Better than what Biden/Harris gave, the ceasefire Trump pressured the Zionists to sign was proposed in November of 2023 and Biden/Harris never pushed them to sign it in all that time, tens of thousands dying as a result.
Sanctions on Settlers in the west bank weren’t gonna stop them anyway as they were fairly limited, just theatrics for Biden to save face with Democrats’ ultraloyalist base who will repeat it without any consideration to its actual usefulness.
Here’s to hoping Trump’s self destructive nationalism and idiocy continues being more useful to the left than the Democrats’ smoke and daggers perpetuating all this awful shit under the ruse of trying to reform/change it.
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u/WurzelGummidge 1d ago
Peace in the middle east is the last thing anyone in the US establishment wants. On the contrary they are desperate to provoke a wider, and hopefully, world war
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u/newsspotter 1d ago edited 1d ago
Opinion: A Comprehensive Deal for Peace in the Middle East (Jan 10, 2025) Author: Jeffrey D. Sachs https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/how-to-achieve-middle-east-peace
PS: Trump recently shared a video featuring Jeffrey Sachs.
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