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Robert Taitin Washington

UNBELIEVABLE: Trump s middle east peace pitch to iran falls flat in tehran and jerusalem | History Defined

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Donald Trump addresses the Knesset in Jerusalem on Monday. Photograph: Getty Images

Amid the fanfare accompanying Donald Trump’s trip to the Middle East and Israel’s ceasefire with Hamas, one aspect of the US president’s pitch as a peacemaker went relatively unscrutinised.

In the highly unlikely setting of the Knesset, Israel’s parliament, Trump proffered an olive branch to an even less likely recipient: the Jewish state’s arch enemy, Iran.

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