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Trump would prefer if there’s ‘no Middle East crisis on his hands’: Analyst
Marwan Bishara, Al Jazeera’s senior political analyst, has said US President-elect Donald Trump is serious when he says that he wants the Middle East war to end, but in a sense that he would “prefer if there’s no Middle East crisis on his hands the day he steps into the Oval Office on January 20”.
“Judging from [Trump’s] various statements over the past several months, he’s not very much concerned about human rights in Palestine,” said Bishara.
“He’s more concerned about Israel’s credibility and public relations in the West and especially in the United States,” he said, adding that the issue is “the representation in the media, not what’s happening to the Palestinians”.
Middle East crisis question of US ‘balance sheet’ for Trump
We could say whatever we want about Trump. We can say that he’s a hyper-nationalist, and some people even call him a fascist.
But he’s not an interventionist in the sense that he’s going to rearrange the affairs of the Middle East on behalf of Israel. He’s not that type of leader.
But he’s also not afraid of doing things that have a huge impact on the Middle East.
During his previous presidency, he pulled the US out of the Iran nuclear deal. And during that same time, he was behind the assassination of Qassem Soleimani, the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps commander.
For Trump, it’s a question of balance sheet: What is the United States getting out of it?
