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that goes to does the timing undercut the stated objective of establishing a peace process, have you two simultaneous pressure and the palestinian authority and on the street level, we re starting to see an increase with these protests and rallies and demonstrations, there was a general strike today, students have been let out of school. so we are expecting the situation to develop ahead of tomorrow s friday prayers. thank you so much. stay with us. so talk about the impact across the middle east and talk about actually the historical opportunity that we had been seeing over the past three or four years with the rise of iran, what that meant for sunni-arab countries who suddenly did not see israel as the greatest threat. it s true. well, a few things here. first, we have to remember that actually it was president obama who did acknowledge jerusalem as the capital of israel. he never activated the moving of the embassy to jerusalem and he didn t do that for security
is unstable, that he s dangerous, when you look at the private comments that are made by members of congress around his stability, you look at his actions in recent weeks. we look at the reality that on this day we talk about the rurj hill roosevelt relationship where the president of the united states is not welcome in the united kingdom, where there is a consensus among both parties in great britain that his presence next to the queen is an assault on her dignity by him standing next to her. when you look at all of this, this is worthy of discussion. the question of his fitness, of his stability, is in the air. and it doesn t get better when you see clear impairments. i don t know. is that a tooth problem? is that something else? presidents ever here typically to a naval hospital for a
part. i was always as pro israel, the thing i did was to push the two sides together. by the way, the palestinians at some point need ed to move to a point where they recognize israel s right to exist. they re not going to do that now you have hamas who has been in a weakened state for years and every time llamas has their back up against the wall, every time hamas has its back up against the wall and maybe be more main stream so we can bring peace to the region, the united states or israel does something that feeds into their power, strengthens their base and allows them to keep saying, we will never recognize israel s right to exist. also, president trump, they
h.w. bush whether he thought there would be an overall settlement of the kind that every new administration seeks and we all hope for and he just honestly said in a world wary way, oh, gosh, i just don t know. one thing we do know as you say this is not a step towards bringing these parties to a conversation that could be productive. all right. let s get a feel on the ground now, joining us live from ramallah and the west bank, ayman moheldin. how are they reacting there? there are two reactions, one in time s square and the occupied west bank, people taking to the streets, condemning the decision, calling on the palestinian authority to walk away from the so-called oz low peace process there is that anger on the street. overnight, there were israeli