Today Mr Trump’s ambassador, who gave money to Jewish far-right groups in Israel, opened his nation’s new embassy in Jerusalem. Mr Trump and Mr Netanyahu have galvanised a people who had been steeped in despair. In taking Jerusalem off the table, the only inviolable demand Palestinians feel they have left is the right of return. Israelis retort that implementation of the right of return is incompatible with the survival of a democratic Jewish majority state. This is obvious to everyone but Mr Trump and Mr Netanyahu, who instead have capitulated to a vision of brutal domination over a benighted people.

Source: The Guardian May 14, 2018 17:28 UTC