West bank annexation

The US president also said "all are on board" for a peace plan to end the war in Gaza, but observers are sceptical given his litany of broken promises. Monday's meeting with Netanyahu will be telling.

Will recognition from France, the UK, Canada and Australia matter? Or will Israel simply go on defying the vast majority of UN member states? September will tell us.

The Israeli parliament has declared that all land 'from the River to the Sea' is Israel's "legal right". With its biblical references, this is not the politics of pragmatism, but of religious texts.

An emboldened settler movement drunk on the prospect of Trump recognising Israel's control there and an increasingly weakened Palestinian Authority make for a dangerous combination