The Trump administration has indicated that it will substantially change US policy direction in the Middle East. There are suggestions that President Trump will move the American embassy to Jerusalem and recognise it as the capital of Israel, and that he will take a more benign view towards Israeli settlements. Former US ambassador to Israel Daniel Kurtzer opposes the nomination of David Friedman as the new ambassador, saying his pro-settlement stance and vilification of pro-peace Jewish activists will do the United States no favours.
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