Trump Declares War On Palestine

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It also plays into the theme of "Islamic" violence and terrorism. The fact that the rage is legitimate will be lost among the Trumpers.

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its a war against Muslims. wait for them to react with violence and watch how hard Israel hits back. Netanyahu is loving this, he wants no part of a "Israeli and Palestine relationship".

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Stupid move. The whole world recognizes East Jerusalem as the capital of a future Palestinian state. This will gravely damage the reputation of the US in the region as being even remotely even-handed in promoting a long-term peace deal between Israel and the Palestinians.

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President Donald Trump’s planned decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and move the U.S. Embassy there is “a kiss of death” for a solution to the long-running territorial conflict in the region, Palestine’s envoy to the United Kingdom said Wednesday.

“If he says what he is intending to say about Jerusalem being the capital of Israel, it means a kiss of death to the two-state solution,” Manuel Hassassian told BBC radio on Wednesday in an interview that was picked up by Reuters.

“He is declaring war in the Middle East, he is declaring war against 1.5 billion Muslims (and) hundreds of millions of Christians that are not going to accept the holy shrines to be totally under the hegemony of Israel,” Hassassian said.

Trump is expected to announce Wednesday that the U.S. will recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, a controversial move that makes good on a promise he made during the presidential campaign. It is a step long sought by Israel’s government but opposed by Palestinians, who would also seek to claim Jerusalem as its capital in any two-state solution.

Hamas, the Palestinian militant group that the U.S. has labeled a terrorist organization, said Tuesday that moving the U.S. Embassy “breaks red lines,” according to The Associated Press. Ismail Haniyeh, the leader of the Palestinian Islamist militant group, said Trump’s decision would ignite “the spark of rage against the occupation."