Zev Chafets, Columnist

Team Trump's Hardcore Stance on Middle East Peace

After years of trying to play neutral arbiter, the U.S. is now firmly behind Israel.

July 3, 2017 at 9:00 AM UTC

Zev Chafets is a journalist and author of 14 books. He was a senior aide to Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and the founding managing editor of the Jerusalem Report Magazine.

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Since the Six-Day War 50 years ago, American presidents and their envoys have tried, with varying degrees of obsession, to broker a final peace deal between Israel and the Palestinian Arabs.

They are a collective zero-for-eight.