Nikki Haley and Israel

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Nikki Haley, America’s envoy to the UN. The writer asks, is US policy toward the Israel and Palestine conflict now being driven by the Republicans’ need to please wealthy donors? HAIM ZACH/GPO
O.K., let’s be honest here. Iran is a bad actor, just as Donald Trump says.

An Indian peacekeeper for the UN mission in southern Lebanon monitors the Blue Line near the town of Cheebba, Jan. 31, 2018. The negotiations to renew the UN operation were calmer this year than last year, says the author, but the “bellicose rhetoric” of the United States could return. PASQUAL GORRIZ/UN PHOTO