Trump is expected to recognize Jerusalem as Israel's capital and move the US embassy

[Linkiloo]

After decades of flagrant US bias towards Israel, Trump has confirmed to Palestinians only what they already knew. Some even grudgingly welcomed his candour. They hope he has finally silenced US claims to being an “honest broker” in an interminable “peace process” that has simply bought time for Israel to entrench the occupation.
To add insult to injury, and in contravention of claims that Washington will not pre-determine the borders of a divided Jerusalem before peace talks, an unnamed senior US official gave Pence’s visit an even more troubling context. He noted that there was no scenario in which the US did not see the Western Wall ending up in Israel’s hands.

The US policy change on Jerusalem has been a hammer blow to the three main pillars supporting the cause of Palestinian statehood: the Palestinian Authority, the European Union and the Arab states.

The biggest loser is Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. Washington stripped him of his emperor’s clothes: he now heads a Palestinian government-in-waiting that is unlikely ever to be attached to a state, viable or otherwise.

The Arab states, which assumed they were the key to a much-touted “outside-in” strategy, creating a regional framework for peace, have been deprived of the single issue – Jerusalem – that matters most to them.
Team Trump add insult to injury for the Palestinians

Well i guess that is best for everybody. It is better to give up on the act and get real. The strategy of the past wasn't bearing any fruit, as pretence seldom will.
Time for the pallis to face facts together with the rest of the Arab world.

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

After decades of flagrant US bias towards Israel, Trump has confirmed to Palestinians only what they already knew. Some even grudgingly welcomed his candour. They hope he has finally silenced US claims to being an “honest broker” in an interminable “peace process” that has simply bought time for Israel to entrench the occupation.
To add insult to injury, and in contravention of claims that Washington will not pre-determine the borders of a divided Jerusalem before peace talks, an unnamed senior US official gave Pence’s visit an even more troubling context. He noted that there was no scenario in which the US did not see the Western Wall ending up in Israel’s hands.

The US policy change on Jerusalem has been a hammer blow to the three main pillars supporting the cause of Palestinian statehood: the Palestinian Authority, the European Union and the Arab states.

The biggest loser is Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. Washington stripped him of his emperor’s clothes: he now heads a Palestinian government-in-waiting that is unlikely ever to be attached to a state, viable or otherwise.

The Arab states, which assumed they were the key to a much-touted “outside-in” strategy, creating a regional framework for peace, have been deprived of the single issue – Jerusalem – that matters most to them.
Team Trump add insult to injury for the Palestinians

No more American tax dollars for your Palestinian terrorist buddies.

 

[fanger]

Golly! I wonder who will step in now America is out, lets see, who are the powerful in this area, are they not "friends of israel" too

 

[fanger]

UN General Assembly has voted 128-9 to declare US recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital "null and void"



Live updates as UN General Assembly votes on Trump decision to recognise Jerusalem as Israel's capital

 

[Sixties Fan]

UN General Assembly has voted 128-9 to declare US recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital "null and void"



Live updates as UN General Assembly votes on Trump decision to recognise Jerusalem as Israel's capital

Now explain to us how valid this UN General Assembly votes are in the real world.......

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

UN General Assembly has voted 128-9 to declare US recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital "null and void"



Live updates as UN General Assembly votes on Trump decision to recognise Jerusalem as Israel's capital

Trump votes 1-0 to declare UN....useless.

 

[fanger]

UN General Assembly has voted 128-9 to declare US recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital "null and void"



Live updates as UN General Assembly votes on Trump decision to recognise Jerusalem as Israel's capital

Now explain to us how valid this UN General Assembly votes are in the real world.......

The UN General Assembly has decisively backed a resolution effectively calling on the US to withdraw its recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.

 

[fanger]

• The nine who voted against the resolution were the US, Israel, Guatemala, Honduras, the Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Nauru, Palau and Togo

 

[Mindful]

 

[fanger]

Tell israel, Hands off jerusalem, The UN just did
And they told orange Man too

 

[Mindful]

Tell israel, Hands off jerusalem, The UN just did
And they told orange Man too

What else would I expect from you?

 

[Sixties Fan]

The above cartoons are examples of the continued Palestinian Authority attacks on US President Donald Trump for recognizing Jerusalem as Israel's capital earlier this month.

The cartoon of Trump dressed as Santa Claus giving the Dome of the Rock and the Church of the Holy Sepulchre to Israel, represented by a soldier with an Israeli flag on his helmet, was printed in the official PA daily. [Official PA daily Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Dec. 14, 2017]

(full article online)

"Santa Trump" gave Muslim and Christian sites to Israel in PA daily cartoon - PMW Bulletins

 

[Sixties Fan]

Guatemala says it is moving embassy in Israel to Jerusalem

 

[rylah]

The US bought a building on David Flusser st. near the consulate.

been posted in local news

 

[Sixties Fan]

Honduras, Panama to Transfer Embassies to Jerusalem, Following US and Guatemala | The Jewish Press - JewishPress.com | Hana Levi Julian | 9 Tevet 5778 – December 26, 2017 | JewishPress.com

 

[Sixties Fan]

There is no use arguing this matter logically or even realistically. It matters little to the world that Jerusalem, for the first time in many centuries, is free for worship to all faiths and peoples. It also matters little that Israel has all of its government offices located in Jerusalem and that Israel as a sovereign nation has long chosen Jerusalem to be its capital. None of this matters because it is not so much that the world wants Jerusalem – after all it was a wasteland and backwater location for many centuries whether under Christian or Moslem rule – it is simply that the world does not want the Jews to have Jerusalem.

There is absolutely no logical explanation for this position but there it is anyway. The terrible virus of anti-Semitism affects all attitudes and positions regarding the state of Israel and certainly regarding Jerusalem. I certainly agree that there are religious difficulties for both the Christian and Moslem worlds regarding the status of Jerusalem as being a Jewish city and the capital of the state of Israel. However just as portions of the Christian clergy and Moslem nations have learned to live with the reality of the existence of the state of Israel – itself a religious difficulty to the theology of these faiths – so too I am confident that they will be able to adjust to the fact that Jerusalem is the capital of the Jewish state. Reality eventually affects beliefs and previously held opinions, even those that were once represented as being sacred and immutable.

(full article online)

O! Jerusalem

 

[fanger]

The United Nations considers East Jerusalem to be occupied Palestinian territory.[26][27] It envisions Jerusalem eventually becoming the capital of two states, Israel and Palestine.[28]

United Nations General Assembly resolution 181 (II), passed on 29 November 1947, provided for the full territorial internationalisation of Jerusalem: "The City of Jerusalem shall be established as a corpus separatum under a special international regime and shall be administered by the United Nations."[29] The resolution received the consent of the Jewish leadership in Palestine, but it was rejected by the Arabs.[30] This position was restated in the wake of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War in UN General Assembly Resolution 303(IV) of 1949. According to a 1979 report prepared for and under the guidance of the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People, it would appear that the United Nations has maintained the principle that the legal status of Jerusalem is that of a corpus separatum.[31]

The United Nations General Assembly does not recognize Israel's proclamation of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, which is, for example, reflected in the wording of General Assembly Resolution 63/30 of 2009 which states that "any actions taken by Israel, the occupying Power, to impose its laws, jurisdiction and administration on the Holy City of Jerusalem are illegal and therefore null and void and have no validity whatsoever, and calls upon Israel to cease all such illegal and unilateral measures."[32]

Although the General Assembly cannot pass legally binding resolutions over international issues, the United Nations Security Council, which has the authority to do so, has passed a total of six Security Council resolutions on Israel on the matter, including UNSC resolution 478 which affirmed that the enactment of the 1980 BasicJerusalem Law declaring unified Jerusalem as Israel's "eternal and indivisible" capital, was a violation of international law. The resolution advised member states to withdraw their diplomatic representation from the city. The Security Council, as well as the UN in general, has consistently affirmed the position that East Jerusalem isoccupied territory subject to the provisions of the Fourth Geneva Convention. The International Court of Justice in its 2004 Advisory opinion on the "Legal Consequences of the Construction of a Wall in the Occupied Palestinian Territory" described East Jerusalem as "occupied Palestinian territory".[27]
Positions on Jerusalem - Wikipedia

 

[fanger]

Guatemala says it is moving embassy in Israel to Jerusalem

The Israeli ambassador to Guatemala, Mattanya Cohen, said on Tuesday morning that Guatemala would only move its embassy in Israel to Jerusalem after the United States moves it embassy. This could take years,

Mogherini said she had spoken to Czech Foreign Affairs Minister Lubomír Zaoralek, who pledged that his country had no intention of moving its embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, despite Zeman’s statement.

“I spoke to the Czech foreign minister myself and he pledged to me that the Czech Republic has remained with the EU position that Jerusalem is the future capital of the state of Palestine, meaning two states with Jerusalem as the capital of both,” Mogherini told reporters.
Guatemala won't move embassy to Jerusalem before U.S. does, Israeli envoy says

 

[Sixties Fan]

[ Just exactly does one Muslim non Arab country have to do with voting.....anything for the Palestinians......and Jerusalem? ]

Iran votes to declare Jerusalem ‘everlasting capital of Palestine’

 

[Shusha]

[ Just exactly does one Muslim non Arab country have to do with voting.....anything for the Palestinians......and Jerusalem? ]

Iran votes to declare Jerusalem ‘everlasting capital of Palestine’

Has nothing to do with Jerusalem. Or even Israel. It's just a way of declaring sides in the impendimg Arab divide.

Israel is the excuse.