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PALESTINIAN leaders blamed US President Donald Trump after Israel’s parliament erected new legal barriers to a two-state solution today.
Under an amendment passed by the Israeli Knesset, any future law dividing Jerusalem between Israel and Palestine will require the approval of a two-thirds super-majority.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’s spokesman Nabil Abu Rudeineh accused the US and Israel of declaring war on his people and their religious and political identity.
While international actors discuss governance and reconstruction, Netanyahu has made it clear that Israel has no intention of ending its military occupation, says RAMZY BAROUD
Bezalel Smotrich’s measures to extend Israeli property law into the West Bank are a continuation of a decades-long project to dispossess Palestinians and preclude statehood, argues HUGH LANNING
