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Podcast: Townhall Review | Commentaries
Episode: Seth Leibsohn: Trump Puts Pressure on Egypt and Jordan
Description: Donald Trump is barely over a week into his presidency and is taking flak from the commentariat that his statements about Egypt and Jordan taking in displaced Arabs from Gaza and about releasing arms to Israel it paid for. Some have claimed he’s pouring fuel on the fires of the wars he was expected to quell.  This is all wrong.  When Trump put maximum pressure on Iran and made clear the US would stand with Israel in his first term, there was peace. It was Biden’s presidency that gave militancy its gas and a green light—...