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Trump's G-7 Performance Suits Israel Just Fine
The country and its leader is wary of a German-led European policy toward the Mideast.
Bibi is sticking with Trump.
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How countries feel about the blow-up of the G-7 talks in Canada depends upon how they see the world and their place in it. Israel, for one, is not unhappy.
This has nothing to do with tariffs. Israel, like most European countries, runs a trade surplus with the United States. It levies protectionist taxes and tariffs on U.S. goods and services. On Trump’s first visit to Israel, in 2017, he pointed this out, rather gently by his standards. Given the comparative size of the two countries, though, the U.S. deficit — about $8 billion — was not high on Trump’s agenda.