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Source: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/dec/7/us-israel-relations-on-the-mend/
U.S.-Israel Relations on the Mend
(Washington Times) Cal Thomas - The consensus in Israel is that the relationship between the Jewish state and the United States is going to improve in a Trump administration, says former Israeli ambassador to the U.S. Zalman Shoval. He told me that he believes Donald Trump and his Cabinet picks so far have a more "realistic" view of the Middle East. It's not only the nuclear deal that bothers Shoval, though he believes Iran will eventually have a bomb, unless it is stopped. It is also bothersome that Iran continues with its terrorist activities, subsidizing anti-American and anti-Israel groups around the world. In his book, The Field of Fight: How We Can Win the Global War Against Radical Islam and Its Allies, Michael Flynn, Trump's pick to head the National Security Council, writes: "I find it simply incredible that an American president should believe a strategic alliance with Iran to be more attractive than our traditional embrace of Israel. Our new leaders need to reverse that, pronto. We will need Israel if we're going to defeat the radical Islamists, and above all, the Iranians."