Blaming the Palestinians, US President Donald Trump questions whether peace talks with Israel 'will ever take place'

Sorry for presuming

That's the crux of the issue. Assuming. It's always the same tactic. Step 1) label as anti-sematic Step 2) discredit the sources.

All sources are biased, one way or another. The intelligent mind will quickly see through that bias and dismiss it as such, but it does not preclude the reader from assessing if a valid point or if some of the information is valid. Case in point the 2nd link. For one, this guy is not some toothless wonder who's banging away on his TRS-80 from his double-wide. Look at this bio , L. Michael Hager is a retired lawyer and diplomat whose work has been published in the Washington Post, LA Times, Wall Street Journal, Boston Globe, Christian Science Monitor, The Hill, International Herald Tribune, London Independent, Jordan Times, and Truthout. He was the executive director of Conflict Management Group in Cambridge, MA, president of the Education For Employment Foundation in Washington, DC., and co-founder of the International Development Law Organization in Rome. He now resides in Massachusetts. . Harvard Alumni to boot.

By any standards, this guy has be pretty sharp to have achieve what he has. And the point he raises is a very valid one: the public is entitled to know if a politician has dual citizenship. That's all.

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