ANALYSIS
“Even if you completely dismiss the Palestinian right of return—which I find harder to do now that Israel’s leadership has all but abandoned the possibility of a Palestinian state—it hardly excuses the Israeli military’s disproportionate violence,” Michelle Goldberg writes for the New York Times.
“[There was] no discernible upside and considerable downside [to moving the embassy]: the United States played a big card for nothing, weakened its claim to be honest broker, [and] helped to fuel violence,” says CFR President Richard N. Haass.
“Both Jewish nationalism and Palestinian nationalism came to be defined by the idea of return,” Nathan Thrall writes for Time.
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