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“This [Middle East] region is a perpetual potential powder keg, and President Trump is a potentially very short fuse. Where Israel and the Jews are concerned, that leaves Netanyahu, however improbably, uniquely placed and obligated to fill a role akin to that of fire prevention officer.”

(David Horovitz writing in the Times of Israel on Israel’s position in the Middle East in the Trump era, 30/01/2017)