Ahmed Hussein al-Shar’a’s hands-off diplomacy is setting off alarm bells — as it should.
There’s a lot in a handshake — and a lot in its absence too.
Remember the awkwardness when a tense President Donald Trump and then-German Chancellor Angela Merkel seemingly ignored the press corp’s request to shake hands in 2017? It certainly foretold how bumpy the relationship between the two leaders would be.
