- Cancer treatment as a double-edged sword, ScienceDaily.com, October 5, 2016.
3. Although US President Donald Trump presents “real opportunities,” his “unpredictability is a double-edged sword,” famed lawyer Alan Dershowitz told The Jerusalem Post Conference in New York on Sunday.
On the positive side, Dershowitz argued that “there are real opportunities with this new administration to do something constructive in the Middle East. When the US has Israel’s back and Israel feels strong, it is willing to make compromises and concessions.”
On the negative side, he said, “President Trump is utterly unpredictable. We don’t know what he will do next. We don’t know what surprises” are next, and “we didn’t know what he would do with” Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas.
“Unpredictability is a double-edged sword. It could drive people together, but it also produces uncertainty, so it could make it more difficult to come to a resolution,” Dershowitz said.
Overall, he suggested that Trump’s real Middle East policies will become more clear in the near future as he visits in the region in late May.
- DERSHOWITZ ON TRUMP AND PEACE: REAL OPPORTUNITIES VS DOUBLE-EDGED SWORD, JPost.com, May 8, 2017.
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