Not smart.
What does a Japan care?
Someone write that boy and tell him America First.
Doing the same thing over and over again, and expecting a different result, is the definition of insanity.
Keeping Jerusalem “on the table” for negotiations because the Paleostinians will have a $hit-fit otherwise has produced exactly NO BENEFIT for as long as it has been tried. All that has EVER happened is that Israelis, Americans or other Westerners, armed with notions like fairness and decency, have wracked their brains and expended considerable effort to devise a wide variety of peace plans...and then the Palestinians inevitably say, “No!” Hell, Bill Clinton even got the Israelis to agree to hand over 96% of Judea and Samaria, plus half of Jerusalem, and Arafag said, “No!” No one was more shocked than Bill Clinton at this, BTW.
Well, it is long past time to try something different. Israel has had its capitol in West Jerusalem since 1948. It’s people have had Jerusalem as their physical capitol for 1,000 years, and its spiritual capitol for 3,000. Israel, when forced to act to defend its very existence, took Jerusalem back from the then-latest occupier (Jordan), and (rightfully, IMHO) annexed the whole thing...while still giving every other religion the right to worship there. Israel has the most sophisticated and powerful military for at least a 1,000 mile radius, and possibly more, and several hundred deliverable nuclear weapons. The bare naked fact is that Israel has every reason to keep Jerusalem, and the means to do so against all comers.
The Fakestinians, OTOH, are a “people” that did not exist prior to being created about 70 years ago. Jerusalem was NEVER their capitol - not physically or spiritually - nor was it the capitol of any Moslem government that occupied it for over 1,000 years. They have NOTHING...except rage and terrorism.
What Trump did was to recognize reality, that’s all. He still explicitly left it to the parties to decide...but any realist knows that the decision has been made by facts on the ground and history.
This writer is delusional.
Yes a country that only allowed 3 or so muslim refugees in.
Peter Van Buren - like decades of failed State Department policy in refusing to come to terms with reality brought Middle East peace closer.
All President Trump did was accept a fact every one ostensibly knows to be true - Israel’s capital is Jerusalem.
If that’s true, why is every one upset about it?
Opposing evil men usually requires a sacrifice. Talk to our WW II vets about this.
“Peter Van Buren, a 24-year State Department veteran” = PhD in blather.
I seriously doubt that American diplomats will find themselves hamstrung. American diplomats find themselves hamstrung now, as they have been for the past twenty years.
After a few days of mindless and pointless rage, we will be over this bump in the road, and on our way to a meaningful peace plan.
For one, the players in the failed peace process will be able to count on the word of Donald Trump, unlike previous administrations who were not dependable in keeping promises. President Trump has a reputation of being correct, consistent, and reliable.
Trump declares water wet.
Trump declares that bears poop in the woods, ducks piss in the pond, etc.
Well, I do think God has more to say in this than the Palestinians or Japan or Egypt or any other country.
Since all the nations have come to hate Israel, they don’t have a chance of pleasing any of them and if they are not pleased, then there will be blood shed? Ya’ mean if Israel does not give in to those nations, then it’s Israel’s fault? Of course that’s what they think.. and since we are friends with Israel, it’s our fault too. That’s like obama’s logic!
Jerusalem is biblical like nothing else.. and since it is that, the Ishmaelites want it. They want everything that has any reference to Biblical prophecies... and they want the Jews GONE. There is no possibility of them sharing. Arafat was offered more than he even asked for, from bill clinton.. and he refused it. He didn’t want harmony.. he wanted it all.
The world sides with anyone but the Jews... but the Bible said they would.
I hope he recognizes Taiwan next.
How about something new - like not allowing fear of Muslim violence dictate everything
Suck it up buttercup...jerusalem is the capitol. Trump has the guts to call it what it is.
I had a subscription (daily) to this rag for many years.. It just got TOO left for me and I cancelled the subscription back around 2004, or so. It is so far left that I put Japanese newspapers in front of it at the news stands :p
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Peter VanBungwart?
Trump fulfilled 27 years of US policy.
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What is “Japan Today” and who is the author? What makes you think Japan has the same sentiments?
I think it’s certainly symbolic, butat another level it’s just where paperwork gets done.
They can send the palecuckstinians back to the land of make-believe where they came from. They are purely a BS political construct just like the last two Bush presidencies. Won’t even address the obama debacle and the bubba clinton orgy as presidencies.