There are four lenses through which I view the Middle East today. The first is the current mood of the Palestinian people; the second, the imprint of President Donald Trump's policies on the region; the third, what the Middle East has lived through during the first two decades of the 21st century; and lastly, what may yet shape its future in the remaining years of this decade.

The war in Gaza had a colossal effect on the lives of the people there as they saw their near and dear ones die so violently. Even today, they continue to search for answers. They can't find them in the Parliaments like Israel and now not even in the comforting certainties of their mosques as most of them have been destroyed by Israeli bombardment. They hate Abraham Accords and they hate the American imposed ideology of Abrahimism but they believe that Islamism as an ideology will move on as they still get together as a community and pray in the makeshift mosques. People of Palestine believed in Hamas and Hamas' slogan that 'it would fight to death for Jerusalem', which resonated with the Palestinians.

Especially after what President Donald Trump had done — dropped any pretence of even-handedness in the matters of Palestine during his presidency. In his first term, President Trump sowed the seeds of Gaza's destructive war when he claimed that for many years, we failed to acknowledge the obvious, "the plain reality that Israel's capital is Jerusalem." He recognised Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, even recognised the annexation of Golan Heights by........

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