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• In India, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s popularity is eroding as the once-roaring economy cools down.

Economists agree that two of Mr. Modi’s biggest policy gambles — abruptly voiding most of the nation’s currency and imposing a sweeping new sales tax — have slowed India’s meteoric growth.

Now that his economic strategy is losing its sheen, Mr. Modi may lean even more heavily on Hindu nationalism, a risky gambit as social tensions simmer, especially between Hindus and Muslims and among castes.

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• President Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital is seen by many as the death knell for a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

And even the Palestine Liberation Organization is asking if that might not be such a bad idea. But Israeli and Palestinian visions of what that single state would look like are mutually exclusive.

Separately, the financial ties between Israel and Jared Kushner, Mr. Trump’s son-in-law, continue to deepen, even with Mr. Kushner’s diplomatic role in the Middle East.

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