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    Jerusalem: Exhausted and adrift, Palestinians offer muted response to Trump

    Dec 11, 2017 5 minutes

    When President Trump officially recognized the city of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital last week, with no mention of Palestinian claims to it, critics said it was like tossing a hand grenade into the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and warned it would light the Palestinian street on fire.

    Thousands of Palestinians have indeed taken to the streets to demonstrate, sparking a predictable round of clashes with Israeli security forces that to date have left two protesters killed in Gaza and dozens more Palestinians wounded. A few rockets were fired into southern Israel from Hamas-ruled Gaza as well, eliciting Israeli return fire.

    But overall the response – especially in Jerusalem – has been muted, at least in terms of physical protest.

    To be sure there is outrage, but there

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