Trump’s ‘recklessness’ spurs jitters in the Middle East
2018-05-19 07:30:39 source：The Washington Post
May 18, 2018
BEIRUT — President Trump’s moves to open a new embassy in Jerusalem and withdraw from the Iran nuclear deal are destabilizing an already volatile Middle East, risking a wider regional war that the United States will be unable or unwilling to contain.
Scenes of the bloodshed in Gaza have been twinned on television screens across the Arab world this week with footage of presidential advisers Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner celebrating at the U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem, reigniting forgotten Arab sympathies with the plight of the Palestinians and implicating the United States in the violence.
Trump’s decision to pull out of the Iran nuclear deal days earlier had already triggered concerns among friends and foes alike that he is steaming ahead in making major policy shifts without a coherent strategy for addressing the fallout.
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