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Clashes loom as Trump’s Mideast team offers competing visions for Israel, Lebanon

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Massad Boulos was widely viewed as the gatekeeper in Trump’s orbit concerning Arab affairs, but it’s unclear how his efforts to maintain calm between Israel and Lebanon will jibe with Trump’s previously appointed special Mideast envoy Steven Witkoff – an unabashed Netanyahu fan

Ben Samuels

Ben Samuels

WASHINGTON – After weeks of foreign-policy appointments that were by-and-large praised by traditionalists for their ideological consistency and professional qualifications, U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s Middle East policy team became a whole lot more crowded with a Sunday morning Truth Social post.

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