The President is expected to announce that the US recognizes Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, but he will leave the US embassy in TelAviv.
I know very little about the troubles between Israel and Palestine, but I hear Palestine also wants to claim Jerusalem as its capital and this will be an official insult to them and slow down the hoped for peace negotiations.
Isn't Jerusalem already divided into 'zones' controlled by different religions? Doesn't Israel already have a 'zone' there, and don't the Palestinians, as well?
Thank you for showing how little you do know about the Israel-Palestine issue.
Okay, not interested in explaining. Got it.
Did you ask for explanations? For what exactly?
You know very little about the troubles, as you say.
What hoped for Peace Negotiations? Do you see the PLO offering to sit down for any peace negotiations? Did they accept the last two offers?
What is it exactly that they want? Do you know, if you have read the PLO and Hamas charters?
Jerusalem is not "divided into zones" controlled by different religions. Israel is the sole sovereign of ALL of Jerusalem, since 1967.
What "zone" do you think the Palestinians have in Jerusalem?
I have been hearing since before Trump was elected that he hoped his son-in-law could broker an Israeli-Palestinian peace. I didn't say I was holding my breath waiting for it.
From Wiki (I'm not as stupid as you want me to believe):
How is the Old City of Jerusalem divided?
The Old City of Jerusalem is divided into four quarters; The Jewish Quarter, The Armenian Quarter, The Christian Quarter, and The Muslim Quarter.
Is Jerusalem Palestine or Israel?
Today, the status of Jerusalem remains one of the core issues in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. During the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, West Jerusalem was among the areas captured and later annexed by Israel while East Jerusalem, including the Old City, was captured and later annexed by Jordan.
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So my original question remains, why doesn't Israel use the part of Jerusalem it controls as its capital? And the Palestinians can use their half.
1) There is no West Jerusalem and East Jerusalem. There is only Jerusalem, which is as it had always been for 3000 years.
The Jordanians conquering the Jewish Quarter for 19 years during the 1948 war, 1948 to 1967 and it does not mean that it now belongs to any other country or people. Jordan tried to annex it but the annexation was not accepted by the British, and many other countries.
During those 19 years, Arabs did not call themselves Palestinians and made no effort to create their own State as Israel had done. They did not pressure Jordan or Egypt to give them Gaza or all of Judea and Samaria which the Jordanians had conquered.
Israel got all of it back during the Arab started war of 1967, because the Jordanians would not heed Israel's call for them not to get involved in this war. The Jordanians wanted more land, and lost what they had already conquered in 1948.
2) Jerusalem, all of it, is the Capital of Israel. There is no country called Palestine.
3) The Quarters are just that. Quarters. They do not "belong" to any different religions, those quarters are simply where Armenians, Christians, Muslims and Jews ended up. No different than Little Tokyo, Chinatown, etc.
4) The core issue for the Arabs/Muslims is that Jews have sovereignty over land the Muslims had once conquered.
There is really no other issue.