President Trump, be the Unifier-in-Chief

It is entirely possible to disagree strongly but in a civil manner, and such needs to be the mode of conduct to be followed.

- M.D. NALAPAT

As other world leaders could testify, handling President Trump is not an easy task. About a month after he was once again sworn in as the President of the US on January 20, 2025, the policy swings of the US President have been almost too many to count. From an initial 50-day window to wind up the war being conducted in Ukraine, President Trump reduced the period to just a few days. Unsurprisingly, President Putin has ignored the ultimatum. The days when the US could command much of the world to do its bidding are over, if ever they existed. After initially speaking of converting a Gaza drained of its population through unspecified means another Riviera, Trump was unusually reticent about what he thought of the plan of Prime Minister Netanyahu of Israel to depopulate Gaza. Any attempt by Israel at seeking to occupy and rule Gaza the way President George W. Bush sought to rule Iraq after toppling Saddam Hussein in 2003 could end in catastrophic consequences for Israel. Given their history of being persecuted across millennia, the Jewish people have the right to have a state which they can call their own within secure borders. As governments are elected to office by the citizens of Israel, they have the right to ask of their government that it not imperil the security interests of Israel through any action of the state.