Trump threw a match into Jerusalem with no plan to put out the fire | Rachel Shabi

The killing of 52 Palestinians is the result of the US president’s folly in giving Netanyahu what he wanted

Death, division and denial as US embassy opens in Jerusalem

The images coming out of the region today said it all. In one frame there is the Israeli president, Benjamin Netanyahu, looking like the cat who got the cream, sitting next to Ivanka Trump and her husband, Jared Kushner, at the opening of the new US embassy, which has just relocated to Jerusalem.

And in the second frame, there is Gaza, suffused in teargas smoke during protests in which 52 Palestinians were killed, and 1,200 wounded by Israeli fire. Perhaps reflecting on these images, the former US peace negotiator Martin Indyk bizarrely noted that the contrast was a “bittersweet moment”.

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