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Donald Trump is approaching peace between Israelis and Palestinians like a business deal – and it isn’t working

His brash language is toned down, and the rictus grin of the shiny reality TV star replaced with a sort of cock-eyed mask of sympathy. But the tactics he’s using are the same, and they’re not getting results in the Middle East

 

Donald Trump is a man used to getting his own way. A wealthy upbringing, family connections and an expensive education led to his first job (if you can call it that) as a major US real estate magnate, a position he held immediately after graduating from Wharton College. And from that point, Donald Trump took what he wanted wherever he found it.He created casinos and luxury resorts for his own entertainment. He bought the rights to the Miss USA and Miss Universe beauty contests – competitively beautiful women on tap! In the early 2000s, with the birth of reality TV, he saw yet another chance for personal glory and launched his own nominally business-focused show.Trump gets, Trump takes, and when he’s done, Trump disposes. He’s perhaps most famous for literally hiring and firing at will in his reality TV show The Apprentice, a media format which allowed him to play at business the way he really wanted, with none of the (albeit meagre) restrictions placed on him by US employment legislation.

Such bully boy tactics have taken him a long way; they walked him right into the White House, despite the long odds on such an eventuality as little as two years ago. He continued in the same vein in office, sacking FBI boss James Comey just weeks after he reportedly refused to follow orders and drop his investigation into the Trump campaign’s links and with Russia.

MORE:   http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/donald-trump-middle-east-israel-palestine-jerusalem-american-embassy-business-deal-not-working-a7751671.html

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