Mideast strategy

Trump strikes again! Egypt was about to propose that the UN stop Israeli settlements and Obama said the US would abstain from the vote which means it would pass and it would take away a critical negotiating point from the Israelis’. Trump intervened with the Egyptian President and convinced him to withdraw the proposal. Trump has now cemented his relationship with Netanyahu. Trump has selected Rex Tillerson as his secretary of state. Tillerson is an oil man and close friend to the Gulf oil states and has demonstrated to them that he is no friend of the Iranians. Is Trump trying to replace the evil Israel with the evil Iran in the eyes of the Arab world leaders and thus lead to a two state agreement between Israel and Palestine. While the Arab world is no friend of Israel can Trump use the age old division between Sunni and Shia to move the Sunnis toward an agreement with the Jews.