Trump’s Mideast team: A familiar look for a transformed region

When President-elect Donald Trump named a Middle East team for his second term, it struck some as a bit of déjà vu.

The team includes a real estate mogul with no diplomatic experience, a conservative religious leader who views Israel in messianic terms, and an Israel hawk relishing the prospect of taking on the international community.

“What strikes me about this team is the mirroring” and how “the people he’s chosen are reminiscent of the people he put in the same positions in the first term,” says Michael Koplow, chief policy officer with the Israel Policy Forum in Washington.

“It suggests he liked what he got out of the first team,” he adds, “and wants the same, only more and bigger, from this one.”

Just as Mr. Trump