Could Trump’s ‘ultimate deal’ for the Middle East be back on?
From our UK edition
The wailing and gnashing of teeth over Donald Trump’s decision to recognise Jerusalem as Israel’s capital continues, but the President’s critics are missing a more important part of his statement. For one of the first-times since he made it to the White House, Trump has now seriously resurrected the ‘two-state solution’ as an option. For Israel’s staunchest defenders and some elements on the American right, Trump’s silence on Palestine had been interpreted as proof that the idea of a Palestinian state was dead and buried. But now, by talking up the two-state solution once again, Trump seems to have confirmed that this isn’t the case: the ‘ultimate deal’ to bring peace to the Middle East that Trump promised could be back on.
