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struggle4progress

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Tue May 23, 2017, 09:03 PM May 2017

Bumbles across Middle East

By Dana Milbank Opinion writer May 23 at 6:52 PM

President Trump arrived in Jerusalem .. with ..information for Israeli President Reuven Rivlin.

“We just got back from the Middle East,” Trump announced. “We just got back from Saudi Arabia.”

... the Israeli ambassador to Washington, Ron Dermer, put his forehead in his palm.

Did Trump not know Israel is in the Middle East? Did he not know he was in Israel? There was little time to contemplate this mystery, because Trump was moving on to generate more puzzlement at his meeting with Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister ...


https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/a-not-so-innocent-abroad-trump-bumbles-across-the-middle-east/2017/05/23/0d785700-3ff5-11e7-9869-bac8b446820a_story.html?utm_term=.171b9bb411c1

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Bumbles across Middle East (Original Post) struggle4progress May 2017 OP
Thanks for this post! furtheradu May 2017 #1
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