I support Israel with the best of them but Gingrich is scooping near the bottom. Soon, very soon, he’s going to demand we move our embassy to Jerusalem.
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Right! If you were truly a supporter of Israel, you would know that it is already a matter of US Law that the US Embassy in Israel should be moved to Jerusalem.
The reason that — despite the law — the US embassy remains in Tel Aviv, is that each year, the President issues a cop-out statement to the effect that, as such a move would undermine US Security interests (read: Kissing Arab derrieres), he is postponing the move.
In fact, if memory serves, Rove’s boy campaigned on that during his first run for the White House. (Of course, he never kept the promise — and probably never intended to do so, as he issued the cop-out statement annually during both his terms.)
In a word, Sir, yes: Newt should advocate moving the US Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem — to comply with US law.
Now, if you were being sarcastic, I apologize for getting taken in. (Otherwise, you do appear to be 180-degrees off the mark on this issue.)
Hint:Whether the US legally politically, diplomatically, recognizes Jerusalem as the capital of Israel in this case, in regards to the specific perspective of this thread is so far beyond the point, it is off the scale.