LDonald Trump's victory probably initially aroused enthusiasm in Jerusalem. Never has a President of the United States been so friendly to Israel, which is saying something. Indeed, not only had he appointed an ambassador there who had contributed to the financing of colonization in the West Bank and who was then to confirm his alignment with the theses of the Likud, but he had transferred the United States embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem and the consulate general there which was responsible for relations with the Palestinians had closed, who thus lost an interlocutor sensitive to their concerns. Adding injury to insult, he had entrusted the Middle East conflict file to his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, who was Netanyahu's host when…
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