The old peace process is officially toast,” writes Noam Sheizaf. “That leaves Obama with one play, and one play only – a Security Council resolution against the settlements.”

Israel’s Foreign Ministry believes U.S. President-elect Donald Trump will reduce America’s involvement in the Middle East in general and in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in particular, according to a document written by ministry researchers and disseminated to Israeli diplomats throughout the world.

Although President-elect Donald Trump and his foreign policy team are only beginning to develop their agenda for his coming administration, his surprising election on Tuesday may already be having an impact on Israel’s West Bank settlement policy.

“Trump’s win no doubt introduces uncertainty into the already complicated status of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA). But the notion that Trump can or will single-handedly dismantle JCPOA overstates his likely power as president,” writes Esfandyar Batmanghelidj.

“Subtle measures might be better than grand gestures,” writes Tareq Baconi.

Jerusalem City Hall will authorize the construction of thousands of new housing units in neighborhoods over the Green Line in the wake of Donald Trump’s election, officials said. Some 7,000 housing units have been frozen due to political pressure from the government fearful of antagonizing Washington, said Meir Turgeman, the head of the Jerusalem Municipality Planning and Construction Committee.

Israelis might look with some envy at the Palestinian economy, over the Green Line: The International Monetary Fund says gross domestic product there has been growing by well over 3% a year, compared to around 2.5% in Israel in the past few years. But the top-line figure doesn’t capture the real distress that lurks below it.