Former State Department official Aaron David Miller, who helped execute American Middle East policy throughout most of the last 25 years, including much of the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, wrote earlier this week regarding President Trump’s announced recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital: “Arab state helplessness in the face of Trump’s decision is an indication of how much region has changed and loss of centrality of Palestinian issue. Palestinian street is exhausted; the Arab street has disappeared.”
The impotence that has characterized the Palestinian, Arab, and broader Muslim reactions to the announcement shouldn’t have been a surprise. Yet many foreign policy “experts” predicted a much different outcome. If nothing else comes from Trump’s announcement, it should force a broad reconsideration of the efficacy of continuing to listen to the same people making the same bad calls they’ve made for years.
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