The most famous image of George W Bush’s presidency is almost certainly the shot of him looking impassive – some would say gormless – as an aide gives him the terrible news on 9/11 that a second plane has hit the World Trade Centre.

The second most famous image came less than two years later, when just six weeks after invading Iraq , Bush posed on the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier in front of a huge banner declaring: “MISSION ACCOMPLISHED”. The occupation of Iraq would continue for more than a decade, leading to hundreds of thousands of deaths, and fueled the rise of Isis. The image is historic for all the wrong reasons.

Donald Trump, though, is not a man overly concerned with learning lessons from history. On Monday, he stood in front of the Knesset and declared that he h

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