While Donald Trump was being inaugruated as the 45th president of the United States, Pope Francis was giving a lengthy interview. Regarding Trump, Francis said, let's "wait and see." He then compared Trump's election to the populism that sought a "savior" and so elected Adolph Hitler.

PA President Abbas's recent appeal to file suit against the United Kingdom for its 1917 Balfour Declaration is not new. In fact, it is the same essential sentiment as Jerusalem's Grand Mufti in 1943 - in Germany.