Why Trump’s peace plan matters to rest of Asia

Slap of the century: Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas telling the United Nations that, if implemented, Trump's peace deal would make 'Swiss cheese' of the land Palestinians claim for a state, meaning it has too many gaps. - AFP

BLUNT – and barbed – as his words sometimes tend to be in turn, Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad often speaks things that many of his peers might think but would hold back from uttering.

The Prime Minister’s comment last Saturday that United States President Donald Trump ought to quit for the “utterly unacceptable” and “grossly unjust” Israel-Palestine peace plan put forth by his Jewish son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner is one such example.