What will Trump’s Middle East policy mean for Israel?

One of the many unknowns about the coming Trump Presidency is Middle East policy.

Donald Trump has given mixed signals on foreign and defence policy generally, and some of his campaign statements seemed to promise extremely simple solutions to very complex problems.

What will the Trump administration mean for Israel – which has a border with Syria, and which has long opposed the Obama government’s policy on Iran?

“Tzachi” Hanegbi is a minister in the Israeli Prime Minister’s office, in charge of National Security and Foreign Affairs, and spoke to PM from Melbourne.

Listen to the interview with Tzachi Hanegbi MK on the ABC PM program.