Donald Trump formulates his political course using memes. Strategies, programs and action plans are then drawn up by people around him. But the impetus comes from the main character’s pronouncements.
That’s why we hear the US president-elect promise to end the war in Ukraine in 24 hours. It sounds unrealistic, to say the least, but it reflects his desire. Which is obviously a conscious one. Which means it shouldn’t be dismissed out of hand.
It’s a pointless exercise to speculate on the basis of leaks and anonymous comments from people – supposedly – close to Trump about what he really has in mind. In all likelihood, he doesn’t yet know himself what he will do. What matters is something else: how Trump’s approach to Ukraine will differ from that of the current presidential administration, and whether he even understands rapprochement.
With regards to the first of these, the difference is stark. President Joe Biden and his team represent a cohort of politicians whose views were shaped by the end of the Cold War. America’s ideological and moral righteousness – and its unquestioned power superiority – determined not even the possibility, but rather the necessity of world domination. The emergence of rival powers that could challenge certain elements of the liberal world order has been met with fierce resistance.
That’s because this setup didn’t allow for any deviation from its basic principles and refused to allow for compromise on fundamental issues. Russia’s actions in Ukraine are seen as an encroachment on the very essence of the liberal order. Hence the call for Moscow’s “strategic defeat.”
Trump stands for a change in positioning. Instead of global dominance, there will a vigorous defense of specific American interests. Priority will be given to those that bring clear benefits (not in the long term, but now). Belief in the primacy of domestic over foreign policy, which has always characterized Trump’s supporters and has now spread throughout the Republican Party, means that the choice of international issues is going to be selective. Preserving the moral and political hegemony of the US is not an end in itself, but a tool. In such a system of priorities, the Ukrainian project loses the destiny it has in the eyes of the adherents of the liberal order. It becomes a pawn in a larger game.
Another peculiarity of the president-elect is that even his detractors largely admit that he doesn’t see war as an acceptable tool. Yes, he’ll use hard bargaining, muscle-flexing and coercive pressure (as practiced in his usual business). But not destructive armed conflict, because that is irrational. Trump doesn’t seem to have a twisted heart when he talks about the need to stop the bloodshed in Ukraine and Gaza.
Now let’s look at his methods. Trump’s previous term offers two examples of his approach to regional conflicts. One was the ‘Abraham Accords’, an agreement that facilitated formal relations between Israel and a number of Arab countries. The second was the meetings with Kim Jong-un, including a full-fledged summit in Hanoi.
The first was the result of shuttle diplomacy by Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner. The powerful financial interests of America, the Gulf monarchies and Israel led to a series of shady political deals. The current situation in the region is many times worse than it was then, but it cannot be said that the arrangements have collapsed. The framework is still in place. But such a foundation can hardly be considered a model. The system of relations in the Middle East is very special, and the scale of the Ukraine conflict is incomparably greater.
The second example is negative. Trump hastily tried to shift the systemic confrontation by resorting to a spectacle. The bet was on pleasing the ego of the interlocutor – the first North Korean leader to meet with a US president. It didn’t work, because beyond that there was no idea how to solve the real complex problems.
However, we can’t simply project the legacy of 2016-2020 onto the period ahead. Trump has gained some experience. His environment is different now, and his electoral mandate is what he could only have dreamed of back then. There is more room for maneuver than before, but not enough for the genuine concessions needed for a comprehensive agreement with Moscow.
It is in Russia’s interest to remain calm, and to refuse to react to any provocations. Yes, objectively the situation is changing. But now everyone will be talking about the fact that a window of opportunity has opened for a short time, and we must not miss this chance. In crises like the Ukrainian one, there are no simple solutions or easy “shortcuts.” Either this window is a gateway to new stable relations – and it cannot be forced open, but will need a careful approach. Or it’s a portal to an even more brutal struggle, because it births yet another disappointment.
Based on his campaign trail statements, President-elect Donald Trump is poised to sign a flurry of executive orders as soon as he regains power on Jan. 20, 2025.
He will become only the second former U.S. president to return to office after losing a reelection bid. President Grover Cleveland, a Democrat, served as the 22nd and 24th president in the late 1800s.
Trump, a Republican who served as the 45th president, will become the 47th president, after defeating Vice President Kamala Harris in the Nov. 5 election. She became a replacement candidate for the Democratic Party after President Joe Biden, the 46th president, dropped out of the race on July 21.
Throughout Trump’s 2024 presidential campaign, which he began in late 2022, Trump stated that he plans to begin tackling numerous issues on “day one,” ranging from border security to the economy.
He has repeatedly made pledges that would make for a busy first day in office in 2025.
In late 2023, Trump joked with a Fort Dodge, Iowa, audience about his eagerness to begin signing documents on Inauguration Day.
“I may even have a very tiny little desk put on the 20th stair” of the U.S. Capitol, where he could begin signing documents immediately after taking the oath of office,” Trump said.
It’s anyone’s guess how many executive orders Trump might sign during his new administration’s first day—which will be a short one. His second presidential term begins when the day is half over.
Under the 20th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, executive power transfers to the newly elected president every four years at noon on Jan. 20.
New presidents are also likely to sign other documents, such as Trump’s proclamation designating his first day in office, Jan. 20, 2017, as a “National Day of Patriotic Devotion.” The proclamation’s intent was “to strengthen our bonds to each other and to our country—and to renew the duties of Government to the people.”
But executive orders are among the most important documents a new president can sign.
These orders, which have been used by almost every U.S. president, carry about the same weight as federal law. And they remain in effect unless Congress overrules them, a court overturns them, or a future president revokes them. These orders also signal what the new president’s priorities will be.
When Biden took office in 2021, he signed nine executive orders on his first day. One of them reversed an immigration and border security executive order that Trump signed on Jan. 25, 2017, the fifth day of his first term in office.
In contrast, Trump penned just one executive order on Inauguration Day 2017; that order focused on reducing the financial burdens of the Affordable Care Act, known as Obamacare.
Here are a few of the many executive orders and initiatives that Trump has pledged for his upcoming term.
President Donald Trump signs an executive order as Vice President Mike Pence and chief of staff Reince Priebus look on at the White House on Jan. 20, 2017.
Top Priority: Border Security and Immigration
In the spring of 2024, Trump said border security and immigration would be foremost on his second term agenda.
“Day one, my act one will be to close that border,” he said at the time.
Since then, Trump has made immigration-related pledges numerous times.
An order closing the border would be “done in the first hour of the first day” under his new administration, Trump said during an October campaign stop.
“On day one, I will launch the largest deportation program … in the history of our country,” he said at one of his final campaign events in Pittsburgh on Nov. 4, the day before the election. “I will rescue every city and town that has been invaded … and we will put the vicious and bloodthirsty criminals in jail.”
Trump’s 2017 executive order on border security, signed on Jan. 25, 2017, directed the Department of Homeland Security to close the border and to take several other immediate steps, including building more sections of the U.S.–Mexico border wall and adding 5,000 Border Patrol agents.
That initial order also called for revamping the way that the government handled illegal immigrants’ asylum claims, detentions, and deportations.
Economy and Energy
When it comes to the economy, Trump says reducing the cost of energy is key to lowering the prices that people pay for essentials such as gasoline and groceries.
He has pledged to implement policies that encourage the production of fossil fuels. “We will frack, frack, frack, and drill, baby, drill,” Trump said during an Oct. 29 speech in Allentown, Pennsylvania. He said he would encourage those processes beginning on day one, but it was unclear whether an executive order would be used for that purpose.
However, Trump did say he would sign an executive order “directing every federal agency to immediately remove every single burdensome regulation driving up the cost of goods.” He made that pledge on Oct. 31 in Albuquerque, New Mexico, promising “emergency price relief” for all Americans.
Trump also said he would create a new cabinet position focused on “doing everything in the federal government’s power to reduce the cost of living.”
People shop at a grocery store in Columbia, Md., on Jan. 7, 2024. President-elect Donald Trump says he will focus on reducing the cost of living for Americans.
Taxes, Credit Card Rates
Trump told a crowd in Mint Hill, North Carolina, “Starting on day one, we will end inflation and make America affordable again.”
He continued in that Sept. 25 speech: “We will have no tax on tips, no tax on overtime, and no tax on Social Security. … And while working Americans catch up, we are going to put a temporary cap on credit card interest rates at 10 percent.”
A few members of Congress have been working on no-tax-on-tips proposals for some time; Trump likely would need to work with Congress on these initiatives.
Funds Halted for ‘Inappropriate’ Curricula
More than a year ago, at the Pray Vote Stand Summit in Washington, on Sept. 15, 2023, Trump said, “On day one, I will sign a new executive order to cut federal funding for any school pushing critical race theory, transgender insanity, and other inappropriate racial, sexual, or political content on our children.”
He has reiterated that stance many times since.
Order to End ‘Mutilation’ of Youths
In a policy video posted to social media on Jan. 31, 2023, Trump outlined a wide-ranging plan to halt “chemical, physical, and emotional mutilation of our youth.”
“On day one, I will revoke Joe Biden’s cruel policies on so-called ‘gender-affirming care’—ridiculous—a process that includes giving kids puberty blockers, mutating their physical appearance, and ultimately performing surgery on minor children,” Trump said.
“I will sign a new executive order instructing every federal agency to cease all programs that promote the concept of sex and gender transition at any age.”
Trump also said he would ask Congress “to permanently stop federal taxpayer dollars from being used to promote or pay for these procedures and pass a law prohibiting child sexual mutilation in all 50 states.”
The Supreme Court is now considering the constitutionality of Tennessee’s ban on such procedures for minors; many other states also passed similar laws that have faced court challenges.
Trump also said, “I will support the creation of a private right of action for victims to sue doctors who have unforgivably performed these procedures on minor children.”
“The Department of Justice will investigate Big Pharma and the big hospital networks to determine whether they have deliberately covered up horrific long-term side effects of sex transitions in order to get rich at the expense of vulnerable patients,” he said. The investigation would also probe whether pharmaceutical companies or others “have illegally marketed hormones and puberty blockers which are no way licensed or approved for this use.”
In addition, his education department would warn school districts, “If any teacher or school official suggests to a child that they could be trapped in the wrong body, they will be faced with severe consequences, including potential civil rights violations for sex discrimination and the elimination of federal funding.”
Parents will no longer be “forced to allow their minor child to assume” a different gender, he said.
Vickie L. Cartwright, superintendent of Broward County Public Schools, helps children find books to be given out for summer reading at Riverside Elementary school in Coral Springs, Fla., on Feb. 14, 2022.
Trump said he plans to “promote positive education about the nuclear family, the roles of mothers and fathers, and celebrating rather than erasing the things that make men and women different and unique.”
The president-elect also would plan to ask Congress to declare that “the only genders recognized by the United States government are male and female, and they are assigned at birth.”
“No serious country should be telling its children that they were born with the wrong gender … under my leadership, this madness will end,” he said.
Trump’s statement followed the UK’s decision to close its only child transgender clinic. That decision was made in mid-2022, after an independent review raised safety concerns about the treatment of children suffering from “gender dysphoria,” a disconnect between a person’s sex and perception of gender. The clinic closed earlier this year.
Reversing the Electric Vehicle Mandate
The Biden administration has pursued policies intended to reduce Americans’ reliance on fossil fuels such as gasoline. Those policies included an executive order that “sets an ambitious new target to make half of all new vehicles sold in 2030 zero-emissions vehicles, including battery electric, plug-in hybrid electric, or fuel cell electric vehicles,” the White House said in August 2021.
That order was intended to “save consumers money, cut pollution, boost public health, advance environmental justice, and tackle the climate crisis.”
Critics, such as Sen. Steve Hinebauch (R-Mont.), see the policy as detrimental to farmers, ranchers, and citizens, “especially with the lack of reliability and affordability of these vehicles,” he wrote in an opinion article.
Trump has repeatedly pledged to immediately terminate Biden’s mandate on electric vehicles.
“Not everybody should have an electric car,” Trump said at a Sept. 27 town hall in Warren, Michigan, adding that consumers should be able to choose whether they want to buy all-electric, hybrids, or all-gasoline-powered vehicles.
An electric car at a charging station in Chicago on May 21, 2024. Trump said he would terminate the Biden administration’s mandate on electric vehicles.
Protection of Free Speech
Shortly after Trump announced his candidacy in 2022, he unveiled his plan for protecting free speech.
“Within hours of my inauguration, I will sign an executive order banning any federal department or agency from colluding with any organization, business, or person, to censor, limit, categorize, or impede the lawful speech of American citizens,” he said.
“I will then ban federal money from being used to label domestic speech as mis- or dis-information.”
Trump also said he would identify and fire “every federal bureaucrat who has engaged in domestic censorship.”
Dismantling Bureaucracy
In March 2023, Trump released a 10-point plan“to dismantle the ‘deep state’ and reclaim our democracy from Washington corruption.”
The first point of the plan calls for reissuing his 2020 executive order that restores the president’s authority to “remove rogue bureaucrats,” he said in a video.
The 2020 order would have created a “Schedule F,” to make it easier to terminate certain government employees. The new category would encompass positions that are “of a confidential, policy-determining, policy-making, or policy-advocating character and that are not normally subject to change as a result of a Presidential transition.”
However, Trump left the White House before provisions of that order could take effect. “This would have been a revolutionary change, a complete remake of Washington and all politics as usual,” Jeffrey A. Tucker, founder of a nonprofit group that examines public policy, wrote in a 2022 column.
Trump, in his 2023 video, vowed to revive that 2020 order and “clean out all of the corrupt actors in our national security and intelligence apparatus.”
Trump in a 2023 speech, vowed to revive his 2020 order to make it easier to remove certain government employees, saying that he would combat corruption in Washington.
“The departments and agencies that have been weaponized will be completely overhauled,” Trump said. “So that faceless bureaucrats will never again be able to target and persecute conservatives, Christians, or the left’s political enemies, which they’re doing now at a level that nobody can believe even possible.”
It was unclear whether additional aspects of the 10-point plan could or would be handled through executive orders.
Among other things, the plan includes establishing “a Truth and Reconciliation Commission,” which would declassify and publish documents about “spying, censorship, and corruption.”
More recently, Trump also said he would endorse high-tech entrepreneur and free-speech proponent Elon Musk’s proposal to form a Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), which would aim to streamline government operations and save taxpayers’ money. Musk, who supported Trump’s candidacy, would be at the helm.
Last week, the FCC adopted an order to approve his purchase of more than 200 radio stations in 40 markets just weeks before the presidential election. The stations reach more than 165 million Americans, and staff at the FCC are concerned that the move is politically motivated. The commission’s three democrats voted for the move, while the two republicans voted against it. Under existing FCC rules, foreign company ownership of U.S radio stations is not supposed to exceed 25%. Soros took foreign investment to make his bid and then filed a request for the commission to make an exception to the usual review process. The decision to fast-track the approval process bypassed a national security review, which could have taken up to a year to complete.
President Trump acknowledges that Republicans hate the COVID vaccine, and that he is open to admitting the shots were damaging, but is waiting for long term studies to be released in 2025.
“I think they’re doing studies on the vaccines that we’re gonna find out. And it’ll come out one way or the other. But I really had a mandate to get vaccines done. And I got ’em done very quickly in record time. The Democrats love it. You know, the Democrats love it and the Republicans don’t. It’s very interesting.”
In this stellar interview with Full Measure host Sharyl Attkisson, who bravely pointed out that not only do the shots NOT “prevent infection, illness, or transmission” but have “very potentially serious side effects,” President Trump said he thought he did a great job handling the pandemic.
“The vaccines. They love it. I have a friend of mine who said to me, ‘why don’t you talk about the vaccine, what you did with the vaxx.’ He’s a Democrat, but I’m sure he voted for me. He said, ‘what you did was the most incredible thing that any president has ever done. You’ve saved hundreds of millions of lives all over the world.’ And this was just recently very smart guy. He said, ‘I don’t understand why you don’t talk about it.’ And I don’t talk about it.
But if you go to Pfizer, if you go to some of these companies, they have charts and they have all sorts of statistics. And I say, ‘why don’t you release those statistics? Let people know.’ But I don’t talk about it. I can say this, the Democrats would love to claim it. The Republicans don’t want to claim it. But it’ll be determined, I’d say over the next 12 months. I say this in terms of overall, I think I did an amazing job with Covid. I never got the credit for it. Remember that more people died under Biden-Harris than died under Trump. And they had a much easier time because when it came in here, nobody knew what it was. It came from the Wuhan labs, which I always said. But nobody really knew what it was, where it came from. Nothing. They knew nothing.”
Sharyl is an example of the few, ethical, smart, and dedicated journalists left on the national stage, who put the truth over access and fame.
“They’re not done with you. They are currently revising these (all vaccines) injections to put them on the mRNA platform. If what I’m saying is true, then that is going to result in large numbers of people dying from heart pathologies that are going to be covered up because they can be.
So if they’re not done with you, then it is a matter of urgency that you look into this, not for social reasons, but for physiological reasons. You do not want to be damaged in this way. And you need to be able to say no. And the fact that they are not only gearing up to have these injections and to strong arm you into taking them, but they are gearing up to shut down discussion of the hazards.
They are gearing up to tie your compliance to your finances. They’re setting up a dystopian landscape where you’re going to have no choice but to accept something that puts you at risk of heart damage, you, your children, your grandchildren. So the instinct not to look at it is, let me give you some advice, future you would like you to pay attention now because it only gets worse.”
“I learned virtually nothing at Stanford Medical School about the tens of thousands of scientific papers that elucidate the root causes of why American health is plummeting.”
“I did not learn that for each additional serving of ultra-processed food we eat, early mortality increases by 18%. This now makes up 67% of the foods our kids are eating. I took zero nutrition courses in medical school. I didn’t learn that 82% of independently-funded studies show harm from processed food, while 93% of industry-sponsored studies reflect no harm.
I didn’t learn that 95% of the people who created the recent USDA food guidelines for America had significant conflicts of interest with the food industry.
I did not learn that one billion pounds of synthetic pesticides are being sprayed on our foods every single year. 99% of the farmland in the United States is sprayed with synthetic pesticides, many from China and Germany, and these invisible, tasteless chemicals are strongly linked to autism, ADHD, sex hormone disruption, thyroid disease, sperm dysfunction, Alzheimer’s, dementia, birth defects, cancer, obesity, liver dysfunction, female infertility and more.
I did not learn that the eight billion tons of plastic that have been produced just in the last 100 years … are being broken down into microplastics that are now filling our food, our water, and we are now even inhaling them in our air, and that very recent research … tells us that now about 0.5% of our brains by weight are plastic.
I didn’t learn that there are more than 80,000 toxins that have entered our food, water, air, and homes by industry, many of which are banned in Europe, and they are known to alter our gene expression, alter our microbiome composition and the lining of our gut, and disrupt our hormones.
I didn’t learn that heavy metals like aluminum and lead are present in our food, our baby formula, personal care products, our soil, and many of the mandated medications like vaccines, and that these metals are neurotoxic and inflammatory.
I didn’t learn that the average American walks a paltry 3,500 steps per day even though we know, based on science and top journals, that simply walking 7,000 steps a day slashes by 40-60% our risk of Alzheimer’s, dementia, type 2 diabetes, cancer, and obesity.
I certainly did not learn that medical error and medications are the third-leading cause of death in the US. I didn’t learn that just five nights of sleep deprivation can induce full-blown pre-diabetes. I learned nothing about sleep, and we’re getting about 20% less sleep on average than we were 100 years ago.
I didn’t learn that American children are getting less time outdoors now than a maximum security prisoner, and on average, adults spend 93% of their time indoors, even though we know from the science that separation from sunlight destroys our circadian biology, and circadian biology dictated our cellular biology.
I didn’t learn that professional organizations that we get out practice guidelines from, like the American Diabetes Association and the American Academy of Pediatrics, have taken tens of millions of dollars from Coke, Cadbury, processed food companies and vaccine manufacturers like Moderna.
I didn’t learn that if you address these root causes that all lead to metabolic dysfunction and help patients change their food and lifestyle patterns … we could reverse the chronic disease crisis in America, save millions of lives and trillions of dollars in healthcare costs per year.
This is a spiritual crisis. We are choosing death over life, we are choosing darkness over light. We need a return to courage. We need a return to common sense and intuition. We need a return to awe for the sheer miraculousness of our lives. We need all hands on deck.”
Source: Sen. Ron Johnson’s Roundtable on “American Health and Nutrition: A Second Opinion” View: on X
“What they’re doing with the World Health Organization is one of the most breathtaking global power grabs we have seen in all of recorded human history. They are at this point transparently seeking the power to turn the WHO into not just like a global ministry of health or a global department of health and human services complete with an FDA, a CDC, HHS, all the different various divisions.
But when you look at how they define healthcare, when you look at how they define health emergencies, whether we’re looking at the one health where the health of humans is intimately intertwined with the climate and the grass and the animals and the ocean and all the rest of it, or when you, right, precisely, is one health, it is this integrated holistic view of health as something that encompasses every area of everything, right? And then the other side of this, which is that everything essentially is a public health emergency, as they’ve said publicly.
I was in Egypt and on the Arabian Peninsula at the last two climate summits where the head of the World Health Organization the CCP Operative dr. Tedros Ghebreyesus braces former politburo member of a mass murdering ethno-marxist terrorist organization called the Tigray People’s Liberation Front when he openly said that Climate change is a public health emergency. They’ve also said that racism is a public health emergency and gun violence is a public health emergency.
So If all of those things are public health emergencies, and they have told us that they are, every area of your life would then fall under the purview of this entity if it was able to usurp this power that it is seeking. They did take one big leap forward, no pun intended, with the adoption of some of the amendments to the international health regulations.
And Tedros has actually made perfectly clear that they intend to slam through this international pandemic treaty, accord, agreement. They’ve got different names. I think for technical legal reasons. They know they’re not going to get it through the US Senate, but it is a treaty. And they promise they’re going to do that either by the end of this year or at the very latest May of 2025. So they have not given up. They will not give up unless and until humanity says no.”
“I want to be heard by ordinary Western citizens: you are now being persistently persuaded that all of the difficulties you faced are the result of some hostile actions of Russia, that you should pay for the fight against the mythical Russian threat out of your own wallet. It is a lie. The truth is that current problems of Western citizens are the result of years of mistakes and ambitions of ruling elites. These elites are not thinking about you, how to improve your live, they are obsessed with their selfish interests and super-profits” – President Putin.
Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author’s permission.
Omer Bartov is a historian who specializes in German military history and genocide studies. I have three of his books: “The Eastern Front, 1941-45, German Troops and the Barbarisation of Warfare”; “Hitler’s Army: Soldiers, Nazis, and War in the Third Reich”; and “Germany’s War and the Holocaust: Disputed Histories.” He has studied the Holocaust closely; as a young man, he served in the Israeli Defense Forces and now teaches at Brown University. He is uniquely placed to judge what’s happening in Gaza and he’s quite clear about his conclusion. It’s a genocide.
I highly recommend watching this entire interview of Omer Bartov by LTC Danny Davis.
A few points from the interview:
The IDF in Gaza is showing the effects of brutalization similar to that of the Wehrmacht in World War II. IDF soldiers are looting, killing, and showing similar manifestations of barbaric indiscipline, and they are almost never held accountable for their war crimes.
The Israeli people are being encouraged to show no empathy toward Palestinian suffering. Zionism has increasingly morphed into a racist form of Jewish supremacism in which Palestinian lives and suffering simply don’t matter.
U.S. politicians are enabling genocide in Gaza.
What Bibi Netanyahu wants is a “Greater Israel” that is largely free of Palestinians. U.S. talk of a “two-state solution” is nonsensical in the face of Bibi’s ruthless goal.
Israel is obviously pursuing a military solution to the Palestinian question. That “solution” involves mass killing, massive destruction of infrastructure, and deliberate efforts to promote starvation while doing little to prevent the spread of disease. The goal of forcing Palestinians to flee from their land, or to die if they choose to remain and fight, marks this as a genocide under international law, ironically law that was enacted in the aftermath of the Holocaust by Germany against European Jews during World War II.
The U.S. is playing Bibi’s game. Bibi will keep going with this genocide because to stop it with a ceasefire would likely mean that he will be called to account for October 7th (failing to prevent the attacks) as well as crimes he’s previously been indicted for.
Instead of the U.S. being the “best friend” of Israel, it is encouraging the worst impulses within Israel, setting the stage for further Middle East conflict and a possible war with Iran. It is also, let’s always remember, enabling the mass slaughter of innocent Palestinians.
Bartov suggests Netanyahu would prefer Donald Trump to be reelected as president, but he notes a Kamala Harris presidency would likely change little, since Netanyahu will bring all pressure to bear against Democrats to continue the current policy. Harris has already stated she supports Israel’s right to defend itself and is against any weapons embargo. If she wins, it’s likely she’ll continue current practices.
Bartov sees this as a disaster not only for the Palestinians but also ultimately for Israel in the long term.
William J. Astore is a retired lieutenant colonel (USAF). He taught history for fifteen years at military and civilian schools. He writes at Bracing Views.
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