Not smart.
The Arab-Israeli conflict has been given life for decades by feckless politicians who kowtow to the rabid Palestinians. This gesture speaks volumes about our resolve to stand fast and our commitment to Israel.
Another State Dpt. “veteran” wrote a piece on how he had worked for Mid-East peace for 25 years and how Trump has now just thrown it all away. 25 years and not an inch of movement? Real good job, sir!! I agree with Trump: it’s time to try a new approach.
Just like with the DACCA issue - Ultimately it’s up to congress.
The president is just the implementer of the laws passed by congress.
If congress didn’t want the embassy moved to Jerusalem they have had ample time to change the law they passed in 1995.
Other presidents have promised to move the embassy to Jerusalem in order to get elected, then reneged on the promise once in office.
President Trump is the first president in my lifetime to make an honest effort to keep his campaign promises.
Short version:
“Let Arab violence dictate U.S. policy”
the anti-American left continues to excrete this kind of garbage even after the fact? answer: ideologues and haters rarely recover and when one does it takes a very long time
I, for one, am VERY GLAD President Trump stopped the 70+ year embarrassment of America not having our embassy in Israel’s capital (the ONLY NATION ON EARTH we did this to, the ONLY one!...our embassy in Mexico isn’t in Tijuana, our embassy in Canada isn’t in Darwin, our embassy in UK isn’t in Leeds, our embassy in Germany isn’t in Frankfurt..).
2. And the anti-Semites who are prominent writing articles like this one...can (and will, see Genesis 12:3)) GTH!
3. Now I pray President Trump finally gets around to Draining the damned Swamp, including the Nazis and Islamics embedded in places like the Snake Department and all of Obama’s enemy agents and moles and spies he planted like in our defense, intelligence, and security agencies especially. Its been over 10 months with only very limited swamp draining, there’s a ton of cleaning up left to do now! (either DJT drains the swamp like he wants to, or else the swamp alligators are gonna keep undermining his administation..and eventually him, imho, they’ll find a way to pull him down if he doesn’t get rid of them !)
Trump just told the truth by his declaration, and changed the direction and motivations of the Palestinian leaders. He has more leverage now that they see it slipping away.
These criticisms, threats, melodrama and kabuki theater is pathetic. If I were Trump, I would tell these jerks to mind their own business, or we will close down our embassies in their countries.
Two points here:
1. The peaceful and tolerant muslims will be fine.
2. Our state department personnel can negotiate with people who will finally know our president will do what he says he will do.
Will Trump take the lead on the Jews building a temple on the Temple Mount?
That would be...exciting.
No one, and I mean NO ONE, truly wants to pick up or handle the turd that is Islam. Most nations and people, being weak, just try to avoid it. Eventually it should be buried, once and for all.
This snowflake should know that American policy
is decided by the US Congress and POTUS
and BOTH recognized Jerusalem.
That said, the author is not the sharpest
knife in the drawer as Jerusalem is the CAPITOL of Israel.
The creep who wrote this one is in the U.S.A., though. Accessed today at Wikipedia (title, source, date, link, author all here).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Van_Buren
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Peter van Buren
Born 1960 (age 56–57)
New York City, New York
Occupation Author
Peter van Buren is a former United States Foreign Service employee who wrote the books Ghosts of Tom Joad: A Story of the #99 Percent and We Meant Well: How I Helped Lose the Battle for the Hearts and Minds of the Iraqi People.
Contents
1 Personal Life
2 Struggle with the Department of State
3 Published Books
4 References
Personal Life[edit]
Born in New York City, Peter Van Buren is a 24-year veteran of the U.S. Department of State. He spent a year in Iraq. Following his book, We Meant Well: How I Helped Lose the Battle for the Hearts and Minds of the Iraqi People, the Department of State began proceedings against him. Through the efforts of the Government Accountability Project and the ACLU, Buren instead retired from the State Department with his full benefits of service.[1][2][3]
Struggle with the Department of State[edit]
After 23 years of service at the State Department, Van Buren experienced a series of escalating, adverse actions.[4] The State Department claimed Van Buren had not properly cleared his book for publication under Department rules and that it contained unauthorized disclosures of classified material.[5]The Washington Post noted that “Van Buren has tested the First Amendment almost daily.”[6]
After several months of legal battles, the State Department withdrew its intent to fire Van Buren and he instead retired with his standard pension and benefits.[7]
Ghosts
SILENCED
Van Buren was Associate Producer[8] for the film SILENCED,[9] (2014) by James Spione.
Published Books[edit]
Hooper’s War: A Novel of WWII Japan). Luminis Books. May 15, 2017. ISBN 978-1941311127.
Ghosts of Tom Joad: A Story of the #99 Percent. Luminis Books. April 25, 2014. ISBN 978-1935462910.
We Meant Well. Metropolitan Books. September 27, 2011. ISBN 9780805094367.
Why Peace (as a contributor). Marc Guttman. April 23, 2012. ASIN B007WTUR6E.
Israel has won battle after battle and war after war.
They get to name their capital, and we should support them.
“That law did require the United States to relocate its embassy to Jerusalem by 1999-——”
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Just another law being ignored-——until now.
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24 years. That shows a hire date in 1993. That was the first year of the Clinton Administration.
Clinton, GWB, and President Zero all said that Jerusalem was the Capital of Israel.
But, when DJT says the same thing, all hell breaks loose. Disgusting.
Read again who the author is. He is not a rep of the Japanese government.
It is exactly this sort of idiot thinking that has kept the Middle East a mess.
The Palestinians are nothing, and we do not a sh*t give if they are in an uproar. Same goes for their supporter Euroweenies in Europe who can't even run their own countries properly.
Nobody who is worth a sh*t cares about this. Only bureaucrats and losers care about this. How about just going with the Truth?
Jerusalem is the Capitol of Israel, and our Embassy to that nation should be located there, and to h3ll with what anyone else thinks about it, especially the Diplomats who can't solve any problems.