And it's working well so far.What people fail to realize about this is that the USA and every president for the past twenty and more years has agreed to recognize Jerusalem as Israel's capitol BUT stayed that action hoping that the Arabs would enter into a serious peace process.
It never developed. Instead, there have been rocket attacks, assassinations, street riots, intifadas, 'days of rage,' etc. etc. throughout the era.
So what the president is doing now is saying, in effect, the policy of staying or delaying the move that just about all American politicians of either party have supported wasn't reciprocated, so it is time to try something else.
It may depend on what that cliff is. If that status quo, that cliff, amounted to peace, you might be right. But there is no peace. And the efforts to get the two sides to find a settlement has gone on for many decades.Maybe we should wait a while and see how this situation develops until we pass judgement, one way or another.
Perhaps they'll untwist their knickers and start to cope with the new situation.
Or perhaps they start killing each other in the streets.
The old approach was barely keeping the status quo, but then again, when you're sitting at the side of a cliff, keeping the status quo isn't such a bad thing...
It seemed rather peacefull the last few months...It may depend on what that cliff is. If that status quo, that cliff, amounted to peace, you might be right. But there is no peace. And the efforts to get the two sides to find a settlement has gone on for many decades.
It's true that these things come in waves of action interrupted by temporary cessations, although there have been murders of people on the street by Islamists relatively recently.It seemed rather peacefull the last few months...
Jerusalem is the capital. It's always been the capital. The government operates out of Jerusalem, not Tel Aviv. All Trump did was acknowledge this.
Who knew middle-east politics could be so complicated?'Why are the hornets acting like this? All I did was kick their nest. Again.'
President Trump says he is helping bring peace to the Middle East. Who are we to question him?And it's working well so far.
Sadly, this was clearly done to express the right's distaste for Muslims.
Or maybe, just maybe, he's a big fan of Israel like many on the right, and it's pandering to the pro-Israel side of the party.