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Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/29/world/middleeast/trump-peace-proposal-palestinians.html
For Palestinians, the Landscape Has Shifted
(New York Times) David M. Halbfinger and Isabel Kershner - While it was always presumed that a Palestinian state would be forged through talks with the Israelis, the landscape has shifted much in recent years with a divided Palestinian leadership and an Arab world that has largely moved on. With only muted reaction from Arab neighbors and little apparent appetite among Palestinians for a violent response, a peace proposal that might have been considered outlandish a decade ago landed with little serious opposition. The assorted calls for action from Palestinian activists eager to shake up the prevailing inertia sounded like variations on a theme of admitting the failure of the Palestinian Authority to grow into a state.