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February 16, 2017       Share:    

Source: http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Analysis-A-change-in-tone-and-substance-481661

From Obama to Trump, a Change in Tone and Substance

(Jerusalem Post) Herb Keinon - A major takeaway from the Trump-Netanyahu press conference on Wednesday is that differences between the U.S. and Israel will be dealt with very differently - as among friends, not rivals. The jocular tone was significantly different from the heavy, tense tone of most of the Obama-Netanyahu meetings. Another major takeaway was Trump's refusal to unequivocally endorse the two-state solution, U.S. policy since President George W. Bush announced support for a Palestinian state in 2002. Trump essentially said that he is open to entertaining ideas and approaches to the diplomatic process other than the ones that have been tried - and have failed - since the Oslo process began in 1993. The third major takeaway is the administration's endorsement of looking at a wider regional diplomatic process, as Netanyahu has been advocating for a number of years.

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