On Tuesday the UN General Assembly met to discuss a plan for Palestinian statehood, two months after President Trump announced his twenty-point peace plan for Israel and Gaza. But has the fighting actually stopped? Is the region any closer to peace? And could Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s ongoing criminal trial derail the whole process?

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Guest: Gabrielle Weiniger, Israel correspondent, The Times.

Host: Manveen Rana.

Producers: Micaela Arneson, Olivia Case.

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