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The Trump administration has been left exposed again
The US and Israel’s outdated and unjust views are increasingly at odds with public sentiment across the globe, writes JOHN HAYLETT

DONALD TRUMP is very upset with the Palestinian leadership, accusing it of ingratitude.

The US president can’t believe, just because he declared Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and pledged to transfer the US embassy there, that Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has told him to forget any Washington-led peace negotiations.

Either Trump is unaware of the city’s unique importance to Palestinian Muslims and Christians, as well as to Jews, or he believes he has a god-like power to make declarations binding on the whole of humanity.

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