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Trump’s return to the White House is thought likely to give Israel a freer hand to strike targets in Iran - like oil and nuclear facilities - that the Biden administration said were off limits.

"Our new approach will deliver respectful partnerships that listen rather than tell, deliver long-term growth rather than short-term solutions and build a freer, safer, more prosperous continent," he said as he set out the agenda for his trip to the continent's two biggest powers - Nigeria and South Africa.

That trust, Schwesinger said, has allowed him to play freer and faster.

If it’s Trump, he “might give Israel an even freer hand in Gaza and elsewhere, and has intimated he could try to cut a Ukraine deal with Moscow over Kyiv’s head.”

In Israel, particularly among supporters of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Trump remains broadly popular for the expectation that he would give the country a freer hand to move aggressively against Iran and its proxies, Hamas and Hezbollah.