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Full Title: Here’s How Trump’s Pledge To Move The U.S. Embassy To Jerusalem Changes The Palestinian-Israel ‘Peace Process’ President Trump’s decision to have the United States recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel was not taken in a vacuum. It was another step in changing the moribund Palestinian-Israel “peace process” into something else. What else is not clear, but the intention and the antecedents are. The intention is to disabuse the Palestinians of the notion that the U.S. is neutral between them and our democratic, pro-Western, tolerant, free-market ally Israel. Clarity will actually make the U.S. an honest broker in...

Almost 9-Years Ago . . . Before Obama won the Presidency, I wrote extensively about how Obama will accomplish THREE THINGS . . . he would do if Elected: 1 – He would do Enormous Damage to the American Dream. 2 – That he will be Singularly Responsible for the DEMISE of the Democrat Party. 3 – And Obama would do ENORMOUS Damage to the State of Israel. I WAS RIGHT ON TWO OUT OF THREE: AMERICA . . . because of Obama, Pelosi, Reid, Clinton and a BEVY of other LEFTISTS, has been dug so deep into a HOLE,...

- WASHINGTON -- The United States government is not a speed reader, but after 37 years of reading U.N. Resolution 242, on Wednesday the government finally read it accurately. The government saw what is not there -- the missing definite article, ``the.'' Passed after the 1967 Six Day War, 242 mandated the withdrawal of Israel ``from territories occupied in the recent conflict.'' Not from ``the territories.'' Israel insisted on deletion of the ``the'' because it implied, as Arab and other powers acknowledged by their vehement opposition to the deletion -- withdrawal from all territories. This was strategic ambiguity. On Wednesday,...