Trump misses deadline over moving US embassy to Jerusalem

Here's my theory:

Netanyahu: You can come here and I'll give you and Jared and Ivanka asylum. Just move the embassy to Jerusalem. No sane President of either party will ever do that, so you're my one chance.

(Trump does even more weird incriminating shit, and Netanyahu's contacts in Washington tell him Trump's about to go down hard).

Netanyahu: Never mind.

Trump: Well fuck you then!

lol r2. I could see that.

. [quote]No sane President of either party will ever do that, so you're my one chance.

Ohh please US Presidents have done far more outrageous things on the order of Israel and its lobby than moving embassy to Jerusalem

[quote]Trump's about to go down hard

You have been dreaming this from past 2 years . but nothing has happened yet ok. No problem in day dreaming though .

[quote]Trump misses deadline over moving US embassy to Jerusalem

Perhaps he spilled ketchup on his Daily Planner?

The Donald's base hates all foreigners. It couldn't care less if Trump pisses them all off.

[quote]You have been dreaming this from past 2 years . but nothing has happened yet ok.

The capacity of some people for denial is awe inspiring.

Less than one year into his presidency and a special counsel has been appointed ALREADY. Plea bargains from the inner circle of the Trump campaign, in exchange for cooperation, have already been accepted by courts. Trump's bank accounts are currently being investigated. But keep singing that "nothing has happened" yet song, I guess!

Seems to me like a lot has happened, all pretty quickly.

By the way, "you have been dreaming this from past 2 years" -- how are things in Smolensk?

Dreamy, sounds like.

Or maybe it's such a nightmare, the only hope they have is that our dreams will become nightmares too.

Another broken campaign promise. How's that wall going that Mexico will pay for?

"Please stop saying you won't pay for the wall, wontcha Mexico? It's killing me here!"

He waived the wall for the tax breaks for himself.

Please, the worse lies are that he's gonna help the "average american" and the "coal miner". He's only interested in helping the I-Got-Miners.

Looks like this is happening. Outrage, outrage, outrage, distract, distract, distract!

No one in this thread seems to know whether it's a good thing or a bad thing that Trump has failed to move the embassy.

I hate Trump and this definitely is a distraction from the Russia stuff of which he is guilty, but I really hope he moves the embassy/recognizes Jerusalem is the capital of Israel. It is long overdue.

Jerusalem became the capital of the Jewish people and their state for 3000 years. When the first kingdom was destroyed by the Babylonians, they quickly re-established it a second time. Then it was destroyed by the Romans, and the majority of the Jews were expelled and cast out into the diaspora.

It too a long time to re-establish Israel once again (2000 years) but the Jews never gave up. And even though they faced expulsions, inquisitions, slavery, pogroms, torture, and yes the Holocaust, they held onto their dream of re-establishing their national homeland, the only place where they are guaranteed freedom and independence.

They did in 1948. Jerusalem had NEVER been divided before then. But Jordan, (in a war trying to destroy Israel) illegally seized and divided half the city, and expelled every Jew from that half. Under Arab control, their was religious oppression. Jews were barred from their holiest sites, ancient synagogues destroyed, Christians were forced to teach the Quran in schools. When Israel won the war in 1967, they reunified that city. Today, under Israeli rule, there is complete religious freedom and pluralism. Jews, Christians, and Muslims have access to their sites, because the Jews respected more than the Muslims, what Jerusalem should represent.

It's their capital, we know it's their capital, and they have earned recognition. Basically, people say it's a bad idea because Palestinians will threaten terrorism and murder (proving only more that it is Israel that can be trusted with Jerusalem more).

^pretending no one other than Jews ever lived there,

I wonder how that Mosque got there....

It would literally cost millions of American tax dollars to move the US embassy to Jerusalem.

R17, by building it on top of the Temple Mount, the holiest site in Judaism R17.

The famous Zionist quote, "A land without a people for a people without a land" was used to eradicate Palestine and displace millions of Palestinians, who aren't really people, right, R16/R19?

R20, Of course the Palestinians are people. And they are people who I hope someday have a state of their own.

The Palestinians do not think Israel is legitimate country. While they claim they want East Jerusalem as the capital of their future state, most believe they can still eliminate Israel and not make peace with it.

Not recognizing the capital/moving the embassy reinforces for those Palestinians the idea that Israel is not a legitimate country. And because of that, they don't have to make peace with it. The embassy would be moved to a location in Jerusalem that is not up for dispute. It sends the message to the Palestinians that Israel is not going anywhere and has a legitimate claim to Jerusalem.

They have threatened terrorism for 70 years. And guess what, even without recognizing Jerusalem as the capital, they have still chosen terrorism and never made peace. They use the threat of terrorism to try and scare the United States from doing by law, what it is required to do, which is move the embassy. It's enough.

R16 = Matthew Anscher

Is that the "goyism is racism" troll R22? Sorry, not him.

[quote][R20], Of course the Palestinians are people. And they are people who I hope someday have a state of their own.

... now that they've been booted off all the best land where they used to live.

[quote]The Palestinians do not think Israel is legitimate country. While they claim they want East Jerusalem as the capital of their future state, most believe they can still eliminate Israel and not make peace with it.

That's nonsense. There are many radicals in Palestine (gee, I can't imagine why), but there are many more practical people who just want to live their lives without the Israelis stealing from them any more and harassing them constantly. But they don't get that -- the Israelis steal from them and harass them constantly.

The Saudis are against it which means it will never happen.

"Jews and Arabs going at each other? And it only takes [italic]not[/italic] signing something? What's not to love!"

I love it when people such as R16 use ancient history to justify their positions, and then get the history wrong.

Jerusalem was not Israel's first or only capital. Jerusalem became the capital of the united Kingdom of Israel under David (the second king of the united kingdom), but it split up again and Jerusalem was the capital of the Kingdom of Judah while the Northern Kingdom of Israel had a few different capitals. The claim to Jerusalem is not that it is Israel's one and only capital for thousands of years, but it is the religious significance of the city--the first temple, the symbol of the united kingdom (which didn't last very long by the way), the fulfillment of God's promise to Abraham, etc.

Archaeological records say Jerusalem first belonged to the Egyptians. The Old Testament (ironically) claims it was inhabited by Canaanites who were slaughtered or enslaved by invading Israeli tribes.

And yes, while the Babylonians did destroy Jerusalem when they conquered Judah, it was a Persian king, Cyrus the Great, who allowed Jews to return and rebuild it and retain an autonomous province in the empire. However, neither the borders of that province not any of the borders of the ancient kingdoms match the borders of what we now know as the State of Israel. And one of them match the borders of the promise God made to Abraham in Old Testament--those borders are about 10x larger and those extended areas have never been under Jewish control, ever.

The UN resolution that created the borders of the State of Israel is the result of decades of negotiations by several colonial powers. So the idea that Israel is somehow owed Jerusalem as its capital really doesn't make any sense.

Watch this video of the changes in that region over millennia and the absurdity of it all becomes obvious. While Jews (among others) absolutely have a RELIGIOUS claim to the city of Jerusalem, the insistence that they have a political claim to that city or that territory now is just that: politics. Muslims have a significant religious claim to it as well, as do Christians. That's why the compromise was made in the first place. It makes no sense politically to "give" a city with huge significance to 3 of the world's major religious to one of them when the act of creating a Jewish state was entirely political to begin with.

This is a very rough estimate of the borders of Israel as promised to Abraham. Again, the idea that any of this should be decided according to religious beliefs/practices/principles is absurd.

R27, Judaism is the religion of the Jews, but Jews are not just a religion. Christians are only a religious group, Muslims are only a religious group, but Jews are a nation, which sets them apart from the other 2 groups. And they are the only nation for whom Jerusalem was and is their capital.

What defines a nation is political, R29. Most of the borders in the Middle East are artificial--carved out by colonial powers. The Pan-Islamic movement regards Muslims as a nation, but they didn't have the political backing of Allied powers after WWII to create one giant State of Islam based on ancient borders and religious principles that included the forced removal of non-Muslims to make way if needed.

There were several Native American nations with their own governments, borders, capitals and the like. Yet no white person has ever been asked to give up anything to restore them, despite a genocide under a Constitution that still remains in effect. In fact, the opposite happened--despite what was supposed to be autonomy, THEY were forcibly removed. There are a slew of other examples around the world where a conquered and oppressed nation would love to restore their historic borders, but we'd scoff at the mere suggestion. Lots of Kurds want to be their own independent nation again, but no one is letting them.

The State of Israel was rightfully created as a necessary response to the Holocaust (among other historic atrocities) but the means and mechanics of it were highly problematic. Pouring gasoline on that fire by handing over Jerusalem makes no sense and has no justification politically.

This is blowing up on Twitter right now and has real potential to blow up in the world tomorrow. Cherish these (possibly last) moments of peace.

R30,

The notion that Israel was created in response to the Holocaust is a worn out lie. The Holocaust showed the NEED for Israel to exist, but not the right for it to exist. The re-establishment of Israel has been a movement that happened long before the Holocaust.

"For I really wish the Jews again in Judea an independent nation." - John Adams "[I believe in the] rebuilding of Judea as an independent nation."- John Quincy Adams Restoring the Jews to their national home is a “a noble dream and one shared by many Americans.”- Abraham Lincoln "It seems to me that it is entirely proper to start a Zionist State around Jerusalem."- Teddy Roosevelt

There were Arabs in the land that is true. Most came in the result of the early 20th century when Jews began revitalizing the land and removing the swamps with malaria. The Arabs never had an independent nation in that land, they were always ruled by other powers- Ottomans, British, etc. The Jews were willing to share the land, the Arabs were not. The Arabs have rejected opportunities for statehood 7 times, more than Kurds, Tibetans, Assamese, Basques, Baloch or others. Why? Because they have never been driven by wanting a state, but wanting the Jews dead. You can't blame Israel for the bloody Hebron massacre in which Arabs killed the Jews of Hebron and cut off the breasts of the women. Israel wasn't even re-established yet.

It's gotten old. There was a war, Israel won. The Palestinian Arabs have refused to accept that and it has only caused them more unhappiness.

Didn't the Hebrews steal the land from the Caananites in the first place? I don't care if they claim God promised it to them or not, it's a disputed area and just a pile of rock. Historic rock, but rock nonetheless. And the same to the Islamic claims in the land. Israel won the war but according to the Geneva convention they are foreign occupiers. Why should the Geneva convention apply to everyone but them?

R32, don't even try and lecture me about history. I'm well aware of and well read up on the long historical Eretz Yisrael movement. When I said "The State of Israel was rightfully created as a necessary response to the Holocaust" that was MY opinion of the necessity of the actual 1948 creation of the State. And the re-establishment of Israel began as a mostly academic movement by a small minority of Jews that was co-opted as a POLITICAL strategy developed by colonial powers. The Brits took it on as a cause in order to get a foothold in the region, and it worked. The Brits got control of the region after WWI under the guise of carving out the Palestinian and Jewish states.

And you can stop with your inflammatory "the Arabs weren't willing to share the land" crap. The Arabs are no more selfish than the Americans who weren't/aren't willing to share with indigenous peoples. How many do you know who are willing to give up their house and community to restore Native American nation borders that existed hundreds of years before they were born? Not to mention that you can't honestly discuss the problems with the creation of the State OUTSIDE of the colonial context. For fuck's sake, you're talking about colonized peoples who were also fighting for their own independence. The hostility wasn't just about "sharing land"--the Zionist movement was linked to oppressive British rule in the minds of Palestinian Arabs. The Allies promised Arab independence if they revolted against the Turks in WWI. That promise was reneged, the region was divided among the Allied powers instead. At the same time, Zionists are moving in with British support and resources, and, to the eyes of the Arabs, are poised to take over. Between WWI and WWII, the British were absolutely stoking violence between Arabs and Jews to keep the region unstable and justify their extensive controI.

By the way, it wasn't Arabs who halted Jewish refugees trying to reach Palestine during the Holocaust, that was the Brits. Their rationale: oh, there's too much violence between the Arabs and Jews there and we need to appease those Arabs so they'll go along with our plan. Oh the fucking irony.

R33, that's according to the Torah/Old Testament, but there's actually not much archaeological evidence of that.

R34, you prove my point.

You made the comparison with Native Americans and Americans from immigration. That is a good comparison. I know that it is weird for some people to see an indigenous nation re-establish their nation ( I believe the Jews are the only ones who have actually done it). It took 2000 years, but god dammit, they accomplished something no one else seems to. I deeply admire that. The Aztecs, the Babylonians, all of these ancient peoples disappeared. For some reason, the Jews were able to survive all this time and managed to regain independence. The difference is the land itself that the Jews settled in was mostly desert and swamps. They built on deserted desert or purchased land from Arabs who didn't want it. When they started changing the land into more of an agricultural miracle, the Arabs got angry and wanted that land back.

Britain (repulsively) limited Jewish immigration to appease the Arabs. (Let's not move more Jews to the land so the Arabs won't kill them). This decision condemned untold thousands if not millions of Jews to the gas chambers.

This is the exact same policy when it comes to Jerusalem. This is what the Arabs have always done. They threaten violence so the world caves and appeases them with decisions that are wrong. I have had it.

That's all right if he missed this deadline. He's got 7 more years.

Even their own leaders admit there has never been a people called "Palestininans:. They are simply Jordanians, syrians who moved to the territory renamed by the Romans in 135 AD as "palestine", former Judea.

If there had been, the'red be a language and culture and historical records.

R36, no Native Americans have re-established their nations with the same or even similar borders, capitals or control in any way that's remotely comparable to what was done in the creation of modern Israel. There are no Cherokee reservations, for example, in Georgia.

And you're absolutely wrong (or lying) that the land Jews settled and built on was mostly desert and swamps. They were buying up land held and occupied by Arabs and by the British government at prices so exorbitant that the British actually had to intervene and regulate the market. That's also in the context of a huge problem of poor Arabs losing land to predatory creditors. So, AGAIN, in this context, you have relatively wealthy Jews coming in and buying up agrarian land (with money from an international fund created expressly for this purpose) with the express and actual support of an oppressive colonial power and forcing out poor oppressed people who have been there at this point for centuries. Despite all this, at the time of the establishment of the State, Jews owned less than 10% of the land and were less than 50% of the population. The larger settlements began in earnest AFTER the State was created, bolstered by laws that allowed the fund to buy up "absentee" land but also only allow Jews to buy, lease or occupy that land.

You're not bringing any facts to this discussion, only spewing propaganda.

[bold]BREAKING: Vice President Mike Pence says US Embassy in Jerusalem will open next year[/bold]

Gotta usher in the apocalypse already before Trump gets deposed, so I'm not surprised the news is coming from the chief nutter himself.

Here's a tweet I found just now if you still think this is about the Israelis:

[quote]PROPHECY UPDATE: Vice President Pence told Israel's Knesset on Monday that the U.S. Embassy will move to Jerusalem next year

Thank you to the poster @ R27 / R28 / R30 / R34 for the very informative read. Fully agree with your analysis.

Someone might want to whisper in VP Pence's ear that there's been a US consulate in Jerusalem for yonks.

[quote]You're not bringing any facts to this discussion, only spewing propaganda.

Well, you sure are R39. But then you know that.

Trump's overtures to Israel mean nothing until he actually acknowledges the Jewish God as God and Judaism as the one true faith.

The British who appeased the Arabs are the same ones who showed Alan Turing their gratitude for saving them from Nazis by chemically sterilizing him.

Oh, please, R45 - the Brits were dicks to [italic]everyone[/italic]. Still are.

They should have created an Independent State of Israel on Germany's post-WWII territory. It would've been fitting karma.

Hand over the entire Bavaria to them. Rich, fertile soil. Loads of space there: Bavaria is 3.4 times bigger in area than ALL of Israel.

But, of course, the European PTB only supported the idea of carving out a new Jewish state as long as they didn't have to cough up any of their own main territories, and it was far, far away somewhere.

[quote] You have been dreaming this from past 2 years . but nothing has happened yet ok. No problem in day dreaming though

Change "2 years" to "7 years" and you've got the whitewater investigation. And we all know how that turned out.........

R47,

I am very glad they did not. If the Jewish people had chosen to establish a state in Germany or some other part of the world, then Israel would have been a colonist project. A people, who do not originate from there, establishing sovereignty in a place they never had it before. And believe me, there would have been conflict if they had.

The Jewish people do not come from Poland, or Germany, or New York. Jew are called "Jews" because they come from Judea, which was/is the name of that land. The Nation of Israel comes from the land of Israel. By choosing the land of Israel, it legitimized Zionism as the reestablishment of an indigenous people in their ancestral homeland.

There is a quote I love.

"It is the only nation on earth that inhabits the same land, bears the same name, speaks the same language, and worships the same God that it did 3,000 years ago. You dig the soil and you find pottery from Davidic times, coins from Bar Kokhba, and 2,000-year-old scrolls written in a script remarkably like the one that today advertises ice cream at the corner candy store."

Donald Trump is moving our embassy to Jerusalem to please the right-wing fundamentalist Christians (like Mike Pence) who form a major part of his base.

[quote] A people, who do not originate from there, establishing sovereignty in a place they never had it before.

R49, didn’t the people “originate” in Mesopotamia (modern-day Iraq)? They migrated and left their ancestral homelands repeatedly behind, establishing a brand new homeland in a place they’ve never been to before. So rationally they can do it again if, in similar fashion, another more favorable territory comes up.

Humankind’s entire migration history (ca. 200,000 years) is a “colonist project”. The past few thousand years are just a drop in the ocean. Every century, nations will keep moving, borders will keep changing.

[quote] It is the only nation on earth that inhabits the same land, bears the same name, speaks the same language, and worships the same God that it did 3,000 years ago.

Isn’t the Chinese civilization older than the Jewish civilization? AFAIK, the Chinese also had more territorial continuity: they kept hold of most of their central lands throughout their civilization’s existence. Whereas, the Israelites lost it all after only a few centuries.

Linguistically, the situations seem similar: both ancient Hebrew and Chinese are similar to their modern versions, but not the same. Though, unlike Chinese, Hebrew had to be artificially revived – as it wasn’t used as a normal spoken / written language for ca. 1,600 years.

[quote] there would have been conflict if they had.

Germany was fully disarmed and forbidden from having a military – so there shouldn’t have been any military conflict. And it was divided up anyway – so the Allies could have given at least some land there to the Jews. Especially since many older Jews were born there and spoke only Yiddish. Of course, it's a moot point now.

*modern human civilization's migration history, not humankind's

[quote]The Jewish people do not come from Poland, or Germany, or New York. Jew are called "Jews" because they come from Judea, which was/is the name of that land. The Nation of Israel comes from the land of Israel. By choosing the land of Israel, it legitimized Zionism as the reestablishment of an indigenous people in their ancestral homeland.

Has your ignorant ass ever LOOKED at Palestinians and Israelis (I mean Middle Eastern Jews, not the Khazars who barely speak Hebrew like Nazi Lieberman)? They look alike! The only idiots who claim today's Jews -every last one claiming to be Jewish- has always been Jewish, are psychos like you who ignore basic genealogy. The land was never ever solely Jewish and conversions have happened over thousands of years. The idea that over thousands of fucking years only ONE group has some sort of "pure" Harry Potter bullshit blood, is the nonsense Zionists push to justify a ludicrous claim. Only an idiot would think a Polish Jew has more right than a Palestinian based on a FAIRY TALE. Over the years, people have been called different things. "Nigerians" didn't always exist. Only Jews have been allowed to engage in revisionist history when it comes to Palestinians. The mark of a moron is one who says "Palestinians never existed" - as if that's supposed to magically make the people who now refer to themselves as Palestinians invalid.