BFM Podcast

Jerusalem - What Will the Istanbul Declaration Achieve?

Tan KW
Publish date: Fri, 15 Dec 2017, 03:07 PM

Victor Kattan, Senior Research Fellow, Middle East Institute, National University of Singapore

15-Dec-17 11:30

A week after US President Donald Trump declared that he would move the US embassy to Jerusalem, the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) -- whose members met this week --  called on all countries to "recognise the State of Palestine and East Jerusalem as its occupied capital”. Today we ask if this will change facts on the ground; if the show of Muslim solidarity by OIC revealed more about existing regional rivalries; if there will be a third Intifada; and if the US move will mean a permanent loss of influence in the region.

 

Presented by: Melisa Idris, Sharaad Kuttan

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