Can Trump put ‘America first’ and also make peace in the Middle East?

HA Hellyer, a political analyst at the Royal United Services Institute in London and at the Center for American Progress in Washington, DC, suggested that Trump may already be preparing to blame others – likely Hamas – for the potential collapse of the deal he has claimed credit for brokering. “Trump wanted a deal to be able to say that he got a deal,” Hellyer told Al Jazeera, adding that he would be “surprised if we even got through all of phase one, unless we have a lot more intervention from DC”.