How Trump speaks like a Middle Easterner and why that bodes well for confronting Iran

TEL AVIV, Israel — President-elect Donald Trump’s repeated warning that “all hell will break out” should Hamas not release all remaining hostages before he takes office is an example of how he “speaks like a Middle Easterner,” Israeli and Palestinian officials and experts told The Post — adding that they believe Trump’s leadership style will be effective in countering Iran.Trump, 78, told reporters at Mar-a-Lago Tuesday that “it will not be good for Hamas, and it will not be good, frankly, for anyone” should the Tehran-backed terror group not comply with his demand to let its hostages go by Jan.20.“All hell will break out,” the president-elect said.

“I don’t have to say any more, but that’s what it is.”Such brazen language — which often draws the ire of the left — is exactly what Iran and its proxies need to hear, Middle Eastern leaders and scholars say.“When he said ‘all hell will break loose’ — he speaks like a Middle Easterner,” an Israeli government source told The Post.“He speaks in the way that the terrorists understand.” Tel Aviv University Institute for National Security Studies senior researcher Kobi Michael told The Post that Trump’s re-election “might be a great opportunity” to bring about peace in the region following the widely acknowledged success of the Abraham Accords from the 45th president’s term.“We see the impacts of President-elect Trump before he enters the White House.

We see what is going there with Hamas, when President Trump said that they will see ‘hell’ if they will not release the hostages — and see what is going there with the Iranians,” said Michael, the former head of the Israeli National Security Council’s Palestinian division.“They are in a huge confusion now, OK? In the worst strategic position in the last four decades.And I think that the vision of President Trump is the vision of weakening Iran.”With Iran’s geopolitical position weakened following the ...