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Some 15 months after Hamas triggered the devastation of the Gaza Strip by attacking Israel, the future of the Palestinian population there and in the occupied West Bank may hinge on US President Donald Trump’s determination to oversee the normalisation of relations between the Jewish-majority state and the Arab world. Analysts say that is a […]
With a pending Gaza ceasefire and Donald Trump returning as US president, Saudi Arabia’s de facto leader must now decide whether to recognise Israel before a Palestinian state is created. For Trump, normalisation of Israeli-Saudi ties would be the deal of all deals. But Riyadh has insisted a Palestinian state must be established before such […]