Q&A What will US recognition of Jerusalem mean for the peace process? Show Hide The peace process has been at death’s door since the former secretary of state John Kerry’s peace mission ended in failure in 2014. Palestinians will see Trump’s announcement as the end of their hopes and demands for East Jerusalem as a capital of a future independent state. Top US officials have meanwhile insisted they could still push forward the troubled peace process despite outrage across the Arab world. Asked in an interview with Fox News Sunday about whether there was any life left in the peace process, secretary of state Mike Pompeo responded by saying “the peace process is most decidedly not dead.”“We’re hard at work on it.

Source: The Guardian May 14, 2018 01:30 UTC