ANALYSIS
“We see from the lack of response in the Arab Middle East to Trump’s announcement that there will be no real consequences for the White House. The ‘Arab street’ is still crushed from the regimes’ violent response to the uprisings of 2011, while the Arab leaders are preoccupied with the ongoing crises in Syria, Iraq, and Yemen,” Lisa Goldman said in an interview with Foreign Policy Interrupted.
“Erdogan is waging an all-out war against American assistance to the Syrian Kurds, who are fighting successfully against the Islamic State. Trump’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital is therefore an excellent opportunity for Erdogan to conduct his war against Trump under cover of a Muslim consensus,” Zvi Bar’el writes for Haaretz.
“Abbas was already walking a political tightrope: he is in the middle of a delicate reconciliation process with his rivals in Hamas, and he faces a public deeply skeptical of his leadership and of the United States’ role in the peace process,” Ghaith al-Omari writes for Foreign Affairs.
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