“Trump is a wild card on Middle East issues. But if his pro-settler advisors hold sway, Democrats must sharpen their message and keep daylight between themselves and the president,” writes Mitchell Plitnick.

PA calls on president-elect to seek a two-state solution to the conflict; Hamas says it expects continued ‘bias’ from the US.

Netanyahu’s remarks were released a few hours after Trump proclaimed victory over his Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton, in a surprise electoral coup.

“President Barack Obama must now muster the courage to fulfill his 2009 Cairo speech pledge to push for the establishment of a Palestinian state,” writes Akiva Eldar.

“Trump’s victory is an opportunity for Israel to immediately retract the notion of a Palestinian state in the centre of the country, which would hurt our security and just cause,” Bennett, who heads the hardline Jewish Home party, said in an apparent reference to the occupied West Bank.

On 2 November 2016, soldiers entered the village of Zabubah, in the northern West Bank, in pursuit of children who had thrown rocks at the separation barrier. The soldiers entered the center of the village and ran toward a group of children who had gathered there. The children dispersed, but one of them, an 11-year-old, froze. A security camera installed in the area captured the incident on video.

It was the first such delegation since late 2014, which took place after that summer’s 50-day war with Israel.