Hezbollah slams US sanctions against its officials while vowing that the American decision will change nothing in their convictions or in their rejection of and resistance to Israel. Meanwhile, the ‘deal of the century’ was a failed clearance sale as Jared Kushner touted bedrock principles at untenable discounts. Economic incentives to integrate Palestinian communities around the region were widely viewed as redundant in the glaring absence of a political dimension that could turn such pledges into realities.