when russia recognised jerusalem as the capital earlier this year they said westjerusalem, not capitalid west jerusalem, not jerusalem capital earlier this year they said westjerusalem, notjerusalem as a whole. president trump talked about jerusalem, the capital city but did not use the israeli words which is eternal, undivided. the palestinians will seize a pub in that, the recognition that some parts of jerusalem could be theirs in the capital and president trump careful to say this does not presuppose any discussions in the final status talks about the boundaries of jerusalem. he did not even hint however that the palestinians wanted eastjerusalem as the capital and when he came to that mantra at the two state solution, he did not say that i believe in the two state solution, he said the two state solution, he said the two state solution if both sides agree to it. so he stepped back from that. so for some israelis he may not have said enough but for palestinians and arabs he certainly said nothing that would satisfy them. there was nothing sweetened in for them aside to his commitme

now, if they had said, fine, westjerusalem, we have the capital of israel, the palestinians have a rightital. so as a key player in the region, what does turkey do now? how do you face this new reality? well, turkey is frustrated, deeply frustrated, because turkey feels that while it wants to maintain relations with israel, for the sake of the palestinians, it is becoming harder and harder for turkey to maintain a kind of plausible relationship with israel. the turkish president has already said, we may even sever ties. do you think that will happen now? turkey may downgrade its relations. i don't know. it depends how the situation develops. would you be as bold with your relations with the us now? well, turkey has already announced that it rejects the us decision. the turkish parliament, for the first time, all the parties have come together, the kurds and the left wing, everybody, for the first time in nearly ten years, they have come together to denounce the american decision, and this shows it's not only recep tayyip erdogan, but its across—the—board, all parties, who are hugely agai

unless president trump has something in mind forjerusalem, and maybe he was only referring to westjerusaleml be difficult to walk back. i think we had put our hand on the scale for the israelis and not the scale for the israelis and not the palestinians, so i am not sure they can sustain a third intifada. you have a difference of opinion in the middle east in terms of the countries who are more concerned about iran than they are about the plight of the palestinians, so for me, it looks like a blues— lose proposition for the palestinians and win— win for the israelis, because the more they demonstrate in a violent way, the more the israelis will say, that is the reason we need more settlements and push the palestinians away so they don't threaten us. i think it is problematic for the palestinians, andi problematic for the palestinians, and i think it will be troublesome going forward with a process. i think the recent one now. work about the reaction from other countries in the reaction from other countries in the reason? is palestine still a unifying force? less so. the prospect of a round