Could the US ‘economic plan’ for Middle East peace work?

Neither Israelis nor Palestinians attend launch in Bahrain as $50bn investment plan met with muted response

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Palestinians burn posters of Donald Trump, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and King Hamad al-Khalifa of Bahrain
(Image credit: Said Khatib/AFP/Getty Images)

The Trump administration’s long-awaited ‘economic plan’ to revive the Middle East peace process has been met with widespread scepticism, anger and derision.

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