To solve the Israel-Palestine conflict, US President Donald Trump will look at other local players and see what they can contribute, former US Special Envoy for Peace in the Middle East David Hale says.
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00:00And when you look at the new lineup in the Trump administration, especially when it comes
00:04to foreign policy issues, I mean, what sort of a team have we got in front of us?
00:11Any names, any individuals that stand out and that perhaps might bring a fresh pair
00:16of eyes and therefore a fresh approach to some of these decades-old problems in the
00:20region?
00:21Well, I think the president himself is going to be his principal advisor and he is obviously
00:29by definition an unconventional thinker.
00:32He's not going to be trapped by the inherited concepts and bound by past approaches of past
00:42presidents, many of which only made modest progress at best.
00:45Many of them, in fact, were failures.
00:47So I don't think he's going to plunge in with these grand comprehensive peace strategies.
00:53I think instead he's going to ask and look for the parties themselves in the region,
00:57not just Israelis and Palestinians, but Saudis and the Emiratis, Egyptians, Jordanians, everybody.
01:03What can they do?