GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — US President Donald Trump's "deal of the century" quickly created a sort of peace in the Middle East, but not the kind he had in mind.
The US proposal, officially unveiled Jan. 28, immediately brought together rival Palestinian factions united in their utter rejection of the deal. That same day, representatives of the Hamas and Islamic Jihad movements participated, for the first time in years, in an emergency Palestinian leadership meeting in Ramallah.