Jerusalem embassy violence - Israel shoots itself in foot

US President Donald Trump hailed Monday’s opening of the US embassy in Jerusalem as a “great day for Israel”. That reckless act was anything but for the dozens killed, and thousands wounded, by Israeli troops.

It may turn out not to have been so great, either, for Israel, as the brutality of its response to protesters is likely to reinvigorate attempts to give greater international recognition to Palestine as a sovereign state and spark calls for economic and diplomatic sanctions against the Jewish state.