“Freeing Palestinian minds from the unmistakable, disastrous failure of the Oslo era requires that Palestinian leaders immediately and simultaneously take three important steps,” writes Amjad Atallah.

More than 90% of Palestinians view the US recognition of Jerusalem as capital of Israel as a threat to Palestinian interests and the largest percentage demands a strong response that includes a return to an armed intifada, according to a new poll.

“Donald Trump’s declaration on Jerusalem seems to have completely disqualified the United States from its role as a broker,” writes Hady Amr.

“Trump’s Jerusalem gambit is ill-timed, ill-conceived, ill-considered and unmoored from any real strategy that would advance U.S. national interests, peace or security,” writes Aaron David Miller.

“It is also hard to see the Palestinian president agreeing to participate in negotiations headed by an American president who humiliated him so,” writes Elhanan Miller.

“Taking their cues from the American president, right-wingers like Bret Stephens argue that the Palestinians don’t deserve a state. Here’s why they’re wrong,” writes Dahlia Scheindlin.

“Confident of Saudi support for the Gaza option and its historic agreement to strategic collaboration with Washington, Egypt, and Israel independent of progress on Palestine, Trump can be forgiven for assuming a Saudi carte blanche in his effort to remake the Middle East, with recognition of Israel’s sovereignty in Jerusalem at its center,” writes Geoffrey Aronson.

Iconic American chains including McDonalds, Papa John’s, Pizza Hunt, and Burger King are the targets of a new Saudi Arabian social media campaign that aims to punish the administration of President Donald Trump for recognizing Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.

The perpetrator behind the attempted suicide bombing in New York City on Monday told investigators that he was motivated by Israeli actions in the Gaza Strip, CNN reported.

Key findings: Israelis are feeling good about their country’s relationship with the US, think a breakthrough in relations with Arab states is possible apart from an Israeli-Palestinian peace process, and more.

The army on Tuesday launched an investigation after soldiers shot a Palestinian who they said appeared to pull a knife out of his pocket, though no such weapon was recovered at the scene.

At least two Palestinians have died in an explosion in Gaza, which Palestinian group Islamic Jihad now says was caused by the men mishandling explosives. The group said the explosion was an accident, according to the Associated Press. Earlier in the day, the Palestinian Health Ministry and local media blamed the deaths on an Israeli air raid.