Trump will welcome anyone as long as they make the right noises and throw the occasional gratuitous complement Trump’s way. From Simplicius at simplicius76.substack.com:
Today Al-Jolani visited the White House for another session of surreal optics:
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MAGA: Make Al-qaeda Great Again
This is a man who up until only a few months ago still had a $10M FBI bounty for his arrest and capture as ex-head of the Syrian branch of Al-Qaeda.
Some might ask, why the double standards in not highlighting Jolani’s welcome by Putin a month earlier? One must admit that the significance here is far greater: Al-Qaeda was the supposed chief bogeyman to the US—the organization responsible for 9/11, an event whose mythological significance rivals that of the Holocaust. To witness this organization’s head beaming in the Oval Office, one must admit, is a far starker juxtaposition than his arrival in sometime-rival Russia.
If Israel says NO then they won’t appear no matter how big the shekel bucket.
The War Against Terror was never about fighting them over there so don’t have to fight them here.