Jerusalem Post Says Trump to Recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s Capital
By Julio Severo
U.S. President Donald Trump may
formally recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital early next week and direct his
staff to prepare for moving the embassy to Jerusalem, said the Jerusalem Post.
“While for the past 20 years,
Congress and successive administrations have expressed a willingness to move
our embassy, as we speak, President Donald Trump is actively considering when
and how to move the American Embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem,”
Pence said at an event celebrating the 70th anniversary of the UN vote on the
Partition Plan.
Trump pledged repeatedly during his
campaign to move the U.S. embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. But his
administration has postponed the possible fulfilment of this pledge. Bush and
Obama had also made the same pledge.
Muslims
threaten an uproar and violent unrest if Trump fulfills his pledge. Besides, the decision faces significant
resistance from neocons, who say that moving the U.S. embassy
in Israel would pose a grave danger to the many American U.S. military bases in
the Middle East and Muslim nations.
For
thousands of years, Jerusalem has been a Jewish city and Israel’s capital. By
recognizing Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, Trump would correct a historic injustice
of the U.S. foreign policy, which has promised many times to make such recognition,
but it has never fulfilled it.
According to the Jerusalem Post, if
“Trump formally recognizes Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, he is likely to make
clear that the recognition is only of west Jerusalem in order to keep the final
status of the entire city something to be determined in negotiations. Russia
announced in April that it recognizes west Jerusalem as Israel’s capital,
becoming the first country in the world to do so.”
Russia did much better than most nations
by recognizing Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. But the Russian recognition was
partial. Only West Jerusalem was recognized. In retribution, should Israel
recognize only West Moscow as Russia’s capital?
Even though many Christian websites
are rejoicing that at last the United States, under Trump, will recognize
Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, the Jerusalem Post made it clear that the recognition
will be partial. Only West Jerusalem will be recognized.
In
retribution, should Israel recognize only West Washington DC as America’s
capital?
Why is so hard for America, the
largest Protestant Christian nation in the world and the only superpower in the
world, to recognize what the Bible and history so clearly recognize?
Portuguese version of this article: Jornal Jerusalem Post diz que Trump reconhecerá
Jerusalém como capital de Israel
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