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White House sources have indicated that the president will focus on 'deals',
Daniel B Shapiro, a fellow with the Atlantic Council’s Middle East Security Initiative told AFP The president looks forward to embarking on his historic return to the Middle East,
AFP quoted Trump’s spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt, as saying We will condition that the deliveries take place during Trump's term,
I'll be asking the crown prince, who's a fantastic guy, to round it out to around one trillion. I think they'll do that because we've been very good to them,
I think it’s frankly ridiculous that anyone in this room would even suggest that President Trump is doing anything for his own benefit,
she said during her regular White House briefing The Gulf itself is a developer’s dream, with mangrove swamps and sand dunes transformed into glittering complexes of malls, apartments, and fountains – often owned by people with connections to the rulers,
I think he has positive, fond memories of what his administration was able to do there, at least on the Abraham Accords,
The Middle East and particularly the Gulf countries he’s visiting, are very ripe for good deals with US businesses,
added Gray, who is now a Kuwait Professor of Gulf and Arabian Peninsula Affairs at George Washington University I think the flaw of the Abraham Accords is that they were built on a faulty premise, which is that the world can ignore the Palestinian issue and everything will be fine in the Middle East,
They’ve had to go to plan B, and plan B has meant detente with Iran and moving on, looking for rapprochement,
Rather than banking on the Trump administration, there is a lot of thinking going on about how reliable the United States is as a long-term partner.”
Gavito, now a non-resident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council, added As they look at that strategic choice, I think they are faced with a world in which US foreign policy can shift rather dramatically,
said Jennifer Gavito, former acting principal deputy assistant secretary of state for Near Eastern Affairs He’s very interested in pursuing commercial deals. He’s very interested in trade,
said former US ambassador to Tunisia Gordon Gray To be totally frank, it’s the defence of the indefensible. This is just graft, pure and simple,
It's important to remember the current challenges the US has been facing related to tariffs in the US economy,
