2 February 2017

Clamoring for Israeli Approval: Trump’s Election Promises Will Haunt Him

US Embassy Tel Aviv

[Photo: US Embassy in Tel Aviv. By Krokodyl (own picture) [GFDL (CopyLeft) or CC by 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons]

Ramzy Baroud, PhD

Editor's Note
Trump’s hasty, uninformed, and ill considered, moves across the political landscape is possibly even more dangerous outside the United States than it is within it. While he is a “businessman” and not a “politician”, being the President of the United States is a political position involving forces vaster and more complex than any business deal – particularly any that Trump may have experienced. His seeming lack of grasping this difference may cause untold damage, including lighting the fuse on an already explosive situation with Iran and Israel. A fuse he is currently pushing with his threats to Iran as well as his fawning promises to Netanyahu.

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23 December 2003

Apocalyptic belief and foreign policy

By Rowan Wolf
The Inter-Hemispheric Resource Center has a new spin-off site called Right Web that analyzes the thinking and activities of the far right. There is an excellent article on Right Web that gives and indepth discussion of a Apocalyptic Christian thinking – Culture, Religion, Apocalypse, and Middle East Foreign Policy” by Chip Berlet & Nikhil Aziz. It is excellent, and I have included it in the “Featured Articles” links. I will give a brief summation of the article here as it is relatively long.

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