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When Trump chose to recognise Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, I believe it was the right thing to do, in spite of being approved by Jews and condemned by everyone else. Whether deliberately or unwittingly, it could be argued that Trump has lanced a boil that would otherwise carry on festering until the end of time. I see it as analogous to using explosives to blow out a persistent oil-well fire.
Probably more unwittingly, but yes I agree. Although the violence will no doubt get worse before it gets better (see my next comment) this could be the start of the resolution of this problem.
It would have been nice if Trump had also added that while Israel is celebrating Jerusalem as its recognised capital, this would be a good time for Netanyahu to announce cessation of building further Jewish settlements on Palestinian’s land. (However,I fear most of the damage caused by those settlements has now occurred).
Indeed and why would they stop now? They've been given the green light by the Americans to do what they want and they will.
The Israelis have been playing the long game here going along with the two state nonsense. The Palestinian land is not contiguous, if could never form a state, but the Israelis have played along nether the less. Now, they don't need to act. I would expect to see a substantial increase in settlement building now.