Posted on 12/03/2017 2:19:18 PM PST by Eddie01
Having worked at the State Department on Arab-Israeli negotiations for the better part of a quarter century, I came up with more than my fair share of half-baked ideas.
But the one issue I was smart enough to avoid -- and I advised every Secretary of State to do the same -- was Jerusalem.
And yet, if you believe some media reports, President Donald Trump is preparing to do precisely that.
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If there is a third rail in the Israeli-Palestinian negotiations, it's Jerusalem. Loaded with political and religious significance, it's long been a tinderbox just waiting for a match. And we've witnessed numerous fires usually breaking out on the overlapping sacred spaces Israelis and Palestinians, Jews and Muslims, share and contest on or near the holy sites -- the Haram al-Sharif/Temple Mount.
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The odds that Trump will stumble in his Jerusalem gambit are pretty good. That's because the point of the exercise does not seem designed to achieve any real foreign policy goals.
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The problem is we just don't know what the Administration's peace process strategy is. And in the absence of a coherent one, the Jerusalem gambit appears to be a one-off -- a combination of Trump's frustration over having to use the waiver again, not yet fulfilling his campaign commitment to open an embassy in Jerusalem, and his willful desire to go where none of his predecessors have gone before him.
As such, the President's recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital is likely to be far more trouble than it's worth -- adding another layer of complication to a peace process that already faces long odds.
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Off topic, Check this out
The kind of thing you could look forward to with single-payer, healthy women who have no trouble getting pregnant getting IVF to ensure the desired sex, ridiculous.
That's what FR is for, and I frequently have the same feeling here. You're welcome.
author of "The End of Greatness: Why America Can't Have (and Doesn't Want) Another Great President."Recognizing Jerusalem as the capital of Israel won't result in more terrorism, but less. It undermines terrorists by showing political losses instead of gains.
Looks like eugenics is creeping back into the picture. Hmmmm...
OTOH, that’s relatively nothing compared to having to pay for “sex reassignment”...and back again, amongst only God Knows how many other affronts to normalcy.
Uhhhhh......WOW!
Correct! Peace is a result.
First, two parties clash, IF war continues uninterupted, and after much gunfire, explosions and death, one side defeats the other. If any stragglers from the losing side crop up, the winning side will "mop them up" and finish them off.
Anybody else?
Then there is peace.
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