The US State Department’s unrealistic approach to the Middle East has led to its many failures

"If you want to understand President Trump's policy on Israel and other parts of the world, the first thing to note is that, just like his first term, he has literally expelled the State Department from the center stage of forging US foreign policy and national security policy.

And during the first administration, by bypassing the State Department, he achieved the four peace accords between Israel and the UAE, Bahrain, Morocco and South Sudan. He understood, I believe, that following the State Department way of thinking about the Middle East would only lead him to more and more failures." - Yoram Ettinger