In this interview (above) that aired live on CBS News on 6 December 2017, Jadaliyya Co-Editor Noura Erakat responds to US President Donald Trump’s statement recognizing Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. Taking note of the fact it has been one hundred years since the United Kingdom issued the Balfour Declaration, Erakat locates the recent decision in a longer trajectory of the persistent and systematic denial of the Palestinian population’s political rights. She also addresses the current status of the so-called peace process and the need for Palestinian leadership to abandon its reliance and dependence on the United States. Worth noting in this interview is the manner in which mainstream US media have adopted the Trump Administration’s talking points about the statement, and how Erakat challenges those talking points directly with explicit reference to Israel as a settler colonial state.