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Ex-US envoy exasperated by Trump approach to Mideast peace

3 May 2017, 9:04 pm Edit

Former US ambassador to Israel Dan Shapiro expresses exasperation at President Donald Trump’s approach to brokering Mideast peace.

“I’m an optimist by nature. But goodness gracious!” Dan Shapiro posts on Twitter in response to Trump’s remarks to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict “may not be as difficult as people have thought over the years.”

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