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Trump’s ‘New Middle East’ is a Mirage

Morocco, Qatar not likely to fall in line with Israel's Anti-Iran Alliance

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Jonathan Broder
Sep 16, 2020
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President Donald J. Trump had better lower his expectation that additional Arab countries will follow the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain in normalizing relations with Israel, a historic development formalized Monday at a White House ceremony that the president hailed as “the dawn of a new Middle East.”

Not so fast. Putting aside for a moment that Israe…

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