Just days after rolling out the red carpet for Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, President Donald Trump has ignited a political firestorm by inviting New York’s mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani to the Oval Office. The same Mamdani who publicly backed the International Criminal Court’s arrest warrant against Benjamin Netanyahu. The timing is explosive, the message unmistakable and the diplomatic fallout already rippling through Jerusalem. Why did Trump choose this moment to elevate Netanyahu’s loudest critic? And what does it signal about Washington’s shifting alliances?
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