President Trump is making enemies in the Middle East by insulting the Palestinians with such actions as removing the Palestinian consulate and placing it in the basement of the Israeli consulate. King Abdullah will probably give a lease to the Palestinians rather than Israel. 

It is horrible in the Middle East and the extremists are in control of the Israeli leadership, including Trump. He absolutely aggravates the potential for a peace process. The latest voice to speak to the drowned out voices of the people is the granddaughter of the assassinated Yitzhak Rabin.

October 22, 2018
By Liel Leibovitz

What are we to learn from the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin? (click here) Speaking at the 23rd anniversary of her grandfather’s death yesterday, Noa Rothman, now a 41-year-old screenwriter, left little room for doubt: Israel, she said in her bitter and much-publicized speech, has turned into a benighted nation where dissent is not tolerated and criticism not possible, a sorry state of affairs orchestrated, of course, by the Dark One himself, Benjamin Netanyahu.

Just what are Bibi’s sins? I’ll let Rothman herself tell you. “The problem is that in our country, these days, doubting is akin to treason, criticism is taken as pettiness, and a demand for setting an example is construed as political persecution,” she said. “When did one of the nation’s leaders in these times give legitimacy to a dissenting voice, god forbid, not as part of a cynical political debate but honestly, in the name of pluralism, which is so vital to democracy, to our very existence, to our future.”...