I'm definitely leaving to Maté's take on things. Doctorow is clearly a libertarian-fringe republican and on the apartheid state he is interpreting things the way he wants them to be and is constantly trying to give a positive spin to the mango mussolini's latest screeching.

None of them seem to have that many contacts within the administration, even the gang of old "deep-staters" from Judge Nap's stable. I'm sure they must have some contacts somewhere nearby who give them some inside information but if you look back at their predictions a while later, and Ritter is infamous for this, they are quite often wrong and usually well wrong.

Maté's take seemed much more based on the evidence and the recent history.

I guess we'll see. Personally I think it's much more likely that Netanyahu has enticed Trump into the action with the promise of a cut of all the reconstruction action as we all know that's what motivates him. That and a hundred million dollars from Adelson.

Just for more info, here's Max on the same topic via Judge Nap:

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