Trump's Non-Policy on Israeli Settlements
In declining to take an “official position” on the issue, the president departs from a decades-old American posture.
by Adam Chandler
Feb 03, 2017
2 minutes
Four days after Donald Trump’s inauguration, the Israeli government announced that it would . In another era—as in anytime before two weeks ago—this kind of announcement would have immediately drawn censure from the State Department and perhaps even the president. Instead, the White House said nothing. Palestinian officials, international observers, and some, referring to the West Bank by its biblical names.
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