That response has homed in on some of the most sensitive pressure points in Palestinian society and the peace process more generally. 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. The US president is treating the Middle East peace process like a Manhattan property deal that he can bully to the table. Because the alternative is not Trump’s much vaunted “ultimate deal” but the ultimate destruction of the peace process and all that it entails.

Source: The Guardian January 03, 2018 09:00 UTC