Jerusalem Israel
By Maha Nassar, Assistant Professor in the School of Middle Eastern and North African Studies, University of Arizona. When President Donald Trump on Dec. 5 recognized Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, he not only effectively endorsed Israel’s annexation of East Jerusalem, which Palestinians have also long claimed as their own – he also radically altered the direction of American foreign policy in the Middle East.
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