well joining me now is mark frings from the conrad adenauer foundation a think tank linked to chancellor angela merkel's conservative city you party mark you're in ramallah in the palestinian territories where emotions are running high right now the e.u. strongly condemned trumps decision has there been any reaction to that from the palestinians because you know so far there is no official reaction coming from to be able to think the positions are quite clear yet to differentiate between the street and the street as it does how does hide there there's no main these no much trust in the west be it the u.s. be it the you to do something in favor of the palestinians however when it comes to the p.l.o. the officials they of course depend very much both on the u.s. and e.u. when it comes to political and financial support what do palestinians want from the u.n. and do is say that you as a possible mediator for the peace process. if you please yes we asked earlier this year also last year who should be the most important mediate order to bring peace between israelis and palestinians the majori

palestinians think about all this earlier i spoke to mark frings in ramallah he's in the conrad adenauer foundationthat's a think tank that's linked to angela merkel's conservatives and i asked if palestinians believe that the e.u. could be a mediator in a possible peace process. if you please yes we asked earlier this year also last year who should be the most important mediator order to bring peace between israelis and palestinians the majority among palestinians told us that the you should play a bigger war and this is also got to be a what the people all by say in the upcoming hours and days they don't understand why the u.s. kind of keeps a monopoly on peace talks between israelis and palestinians they would refer to the success story comes with a five plus one talks the peace talks on the nuclear deal with the iran they would also refer to the might of natural dimension the manager of forum that was introduced by the french peace initiative earlier this year so there are very concrete ideas and i think the u.n. doesn't have to reinvent the wheel there is a very concrete initiative on the tabl