Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs: With President-elect Donald Trump’s administration soon to enter the White House and already planning its foreign policy, including in the Middle East, it is vital to review developments in the Palestinian issue since Trump ended his first presidency. Most significantly, Palestinian secular nationalism has declined while the Palestinians’ fundamentalist religious narrative is on the rise. Today, that narrative is imbued with Hamas Islamist ideology, which Iran is likely to deploy as a new means to destabilize Europe and, eventually, the United States.

The situation came into focus with the Islamist violence against Israeli soccer fans in Amsterdam. 

The pogromists did not call for the liberation of Palestine or a Palestinian state; their cri de coeur was: “Jews are a cancer.”