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Not the way you are "trying" to define them (and don't think I don't see your attempt to conflate Donald Trump's campaigning with Founding Fathers). He explicitly campaigned on exactly this point, so your rather fallacious attempt at "special pleading" seems rather disingenuous.

See Post #29.

Is there any other country where we don't put our embassy in the nation's declared capital? Not putting our embassy there communicates agreement that the capital's status is tentative!

1. We didn't put an embassy in East Germany during the Cold War. We recognized Berlin as the capital of a unified Germany, but the U.S. embassy building that was there up until World War II actually ended up just inside the Soviet-occupied East Berlin. We put our West German embassy in Bonn while the two countries existed separately. We maintained a "diplomatic mission" in Berlin to reaffirm the standing U.S. policy of supporting a reunified Germany at some undetermined point of time in the future.

2. I hate to break this to you, but for now the capital's status IS tentative. The standing U.S. policy on this issue is laid out in the Declaration of Principles (1993) and the Interim Agreement (1995) on Palestine, which describe Jerusalem's status as "undetermined" at this time. Israel is a signatory to those agreements.

See Post #29.

Seems to me that moving the embassy would be perfectly in keeping with Trump's "unpredictability" doctrine. Besides, how does taking the Arab side indicate neutrality?

I hate to break this to you, but for now the capital's status IS tentative.

See posts #32 AND answering post #33, again.

Furthermore, the ONLY parallel between Germany and Israel is the former division of the capital. Both have been reunited, albeit under radically different circumstances, and validity of claim. Maintaining the pretense of indecision serves ONLY the Arab interest.