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Trump’s Only Real Worldview Is Pettiness

The presidential candidate is pro-Israel or anti-Israel depending on his personal grudges.
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Let no one say that Donald Trump has lost his edge. His speech Wednesday evening, amid the roiling violence in the Gaza Strip, shows he’s still got it, whatever it is.

In Florida, the former president and GOP presidential front-runner Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for a supposed disagreement over a 2020 U.S. missile strike that killed Iranian General Qassem Soleimani. “I’ll never forget,” Trump said. “I’ll never forget that Bibi Netanyahu let us down. That was a very terrible thing.” , the

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