Published: 11 December 2017
Last updated: 4 March 2024
While Abbas seeks strategy to channel Jerusalem protests, Hamas aims to step in (Times of Israel)
DOV LIEBER The PA chief says the 'rage' over Trump's new policy will continue, and the Palestinians will 'never back down.' But does he have a plan to turn grievance into a recipe for statehood?
Trump’s Jerusalem declaration gives Abbas a chance to shake things up (Haaretz)
AMIRA HASS Unfortunately, however, change is something that the Palestinian leadership has forgotten how to accomplish
Jerusalem recognition serves mainly Trump, Netanyahu (Al-Monitor)
BEN CASPIT Abbas has no alternative but to suppress his anger and continue to wait for the American plan to come to fruition. In this sphere of alternatives that were exhausted and options that were blocked, Abbas has almost no one to blame but himself
Trump, Israel and the art of the giveaway (NYT)
THOMAS FRIEDMAN
Photo: Abbas in Jordan in October (Reuters)
