Trump sets an audacious target

The US president’s approach to brokering peace between Israel and Palestine is the “latest iteration of his classic deal-making style”.

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Glowing terms: Donald Trump with King Salman in Saudi Arabia
(Image credit: 2017 Anadolu Agency)

Americans have got used to "the perpetual chaos" caused by their new president, says Dana Milbank in The Washington Post. Over the past week, "lucky friends and allies" in the Middle East got to see the "Trump tornado first hand" as he "bumbled his way through Saudi Arabia and Israel" on his first foreign trip, calling Saudi Arabia's King Salman "King Solomon" and leaving a "cheerful message" ("so amazing and will never forget!") in the guestbook at the Holocaust memorial Yad Vashem.

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Emily Hohler
Politics editor

Emily has worked as a journalist for more than thirty years and was formerly Assistant Editor of MoneyWeek, which she helped launch in 2000. Prior to this, she was Deputy Features Editor of The Times and a Commissioning Editor for The Independent on Sunday and The Daily Telegraph. She has written for most of the national newspapers including The Times, the Daily and Sunday Telegraph, The Evening Standard and The Daily Mail, She interviewed celebrities weekly for The Sunday Telegraph and wrote a regular column for The Evening Standard. As Political Editor of MoneyWeek, Emily has covered subjects from Brexit to the Gaza war.

Aside from her writing, Emily trained as Nutritional Therapist following her son's diagnosis with Type 1 diabetes in 2011 and now works as a practitioner for Nature Doc, offering one-to-one consultations and running workshops in Oxfordshire.