FOREIGN POLICY/IRAN/ISRAEL: “Mr. Trump has also tacked to the center on Israel. After presenting himself as a stalwart defender of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu who would buck the pressure campaign against Israeli settlements in the West Bank, Mr. Trump warned Israelis this week that he did not believe that ‘going ahead with these settlements is a good thing for peace.’
And on Iran, where Mr. Trump threatened as a candidate to rip up the nuclear deal struck by President Barack Obama, advisers to the new president told the European Union’s top foreign policy official, Federica Mogherini, that the United States would fully carry out the agreement.”
– Mark Landler, “Trump Foreign Policy Quickly Loses Its Sharp Edge,” The New York Times online, Feb. 10, 2017