President Donald Trump is welcoming Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to the White House today. This is the first visit of a foreign leader to Washington during President Donald Trump’s second term.
In a new article, Jon Hoffman, a research fellow at Cato, and Justin Logan, the director of defense and foreign policy studies, argue that Trump and the United States generally have “little interest in being led back into a politically costly and militarily dubious Israeli campaign.” They write that Trump should “make clear to Netanyahu that if the ceasefire falls apart and the war resumes, the U.S. will not be involved.”
Hoffman appeared on MSNBC over the weekend, talking about the visit and argued that “Trump has leverage if he’s willing to use it. American weapons and military aid have enabled this war.”
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