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Deep anxiety across the Jerusalem divide over Trump's actions

Israelis and Palestinians worry about what new trouble might follow president’s move to declare Jerusalem the capital of IsraelDefiant Trump confirms US will recognise Jerusalem as capital of Israel
A Palestinian man walks past Israeli border guards in Jerusalem’s Old City. Photograph: Thomas Coex/AFP/Getty Images

In the driving rain of a Jerusalem winter storm, the site suggested as a potential location for a future US embassy in one of the world’s most contested cities isn’t much to look at it.

Sandwiched between two busy roads in north Talpiot district in the west of the city, it is a scrubby area of dirt punctuated with litter and a few trees.

Unprepossessing as it is, this plot is the most visible symbol of a controversy threatening to disrupt the Middle East after he was directing the US state department to begin preparations to move

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