How much of Godsend for Netanyahu is Trump’s return to the White House?

By James M. Dorsey

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Predicting President Donald J. Trump’s Middle East policy and his attitude toward Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu amounts to reading tea leaves.

The leaves are the cast of characters included in Mr. Trump’s administration when he takes office and who he excluded.

Yet even that could prove to be misleading.

“In the first Trump administration, there was that ‘tyranny of the final briefer’ — the last person he talks to can be extraordinarily influential on issues he cares less about. So I think one of the most important people in a Trump administration is going to…