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What does Trump’s win change for Middle East? On Israel, Donald Trump may take U-turn as compared to his previous term, Michael Maloof, former senior security policy analyst in the Office of the Secretary of Defense, told Sputnik. Trump has already been “somewhat critical of [Israeli Prime Minister [Benjamin] Netanyahu in terms of continuing this war [in Gaza and Lebanon] endlessly,” Maloof said. “He’s recently said to Netanyahu, get this done, finish it, stop the fighting, come to terms. And if he doesn’t, then I think he’s going to have to undertake a different approach whereas in his first administration, he was very supportive of what Netanyahu wanted. He gave the Israelis everything they wanted,” the ex-Pentagon analyst pointed out. Trump is going to look more towards Saudi Arabia as the kingdom is now insisting on a two-state solution in exchange for normalizing relations with Israel as well as reactivating the Abraham Accords, according to the analyst. “This is going to ... Source: Sputnik International
