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“Days of Rage” Prevail

- Janhavi Belwalkar


To place a cherry on top of his series of rash    amongst Palestinians and Israelis, but also
decisions, President Trump managed to meddle      ended the several decades of diplomacy that
in the affairs of a country 5,897 miles away      the USA had implied to keep up. Riots have
from him, distorting the thin web of peace that   since engulfed the streets of the two nations
was just beginning to settle.                     and distorted any temporary sense of peace that
                                                  may have existed.
On the 7th of December, the undivided region
of Jerusalem was brought under the                In the play of modern day society, power bags
microscope of the world, and its many years of    lead roles. No matter how much we like to
being caught in the crossfire have come to a      believe that we have risen beyond being
halting, distraught, tactless pause. Sparking     influenced by soft power, dominance works on
debate across the globe, President Trump          the conscience. Decisions that can influence
boldly declared the country-less city of          people are severely sensitive and have the
Jerusalem to be the official capital of the tri-  ability to break the world as though it were a
ethnic country of Israel. Not only did this       figurine made of porcelain. In times when the
stirred feelings of insecurity and violence       US economy is booming and continues to fill
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