Donald Trumps re-election as the US president last week comes at a time of extreme volatility in the Middle East.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's confidant Ron Dermer met President-elect Trump in Mar-a-Lago on Sunday, according to two Israeli officials and two U.S. officials with knowledge of the meeting.

If his first term in the White House is any indication, President-elect Donald Trump is likely to keep the Middle East high on his agenda.

Going forward, both Netanyahu’s shakeup and a new Trump administration stand to reshape the direction of Israel’s war against Iran and its proxies across the Middle East.

In Trump’s hands, the country’s diplomatic strategy in the Middle East can only get worse. This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To stay on top of important articles like these, sign up to receive the latest updates from TomDispatch.

In his first term, Donald Trump tried to undermine the strategy that Jordan had bet on for more than two decades, to protect itself from the risk of transferring the Palestinians from the occupied West Bank to Jordan.