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Analysis

The Language of Power

The ICC issued warrants. The UN issued resolutions. The G7 issued communiqués. None of it moved Trump on Netanyahu. Arab leaders did it in a private conversation, in Trump's language, about Trump's interests. The method reveals what the last 18 months have taught pragmatic states.

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