Excellent advice from Sen. Merkley just now on MSNBC [View all]

Of course that means there is no way trump will follow it.

Basically, he said that trump needs to capitalize on the gratitude Israel has towards the US now by demanding that they endorse a cease fire. The cease fire needs to be used to return to negotiations.

There will be many, many negative repercussions of the unilateral action taken last night. Are we just going to suck up all the negative and dangerous blowback without demanding anything in return?

I fear the answer is yes.