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President Trump’s Jerusalem embassy move is part of a much bigger plan
The American Thinker ^ | 12/06/17 | Thomas Lifson

Posted on 12/06/2017 7:29:24 AM PST by pgkdan

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To: pgkdan
Every recent president has promised to move the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem as a candidate,

I doubt if Obama did this.

21 posted on 12/06/2017 8:25:18 AM PST by BipolarBob
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I look at part of this history as a glance at what independent oil drillers using hydraulic fracturing technology (frackers) have done indirectly for world diplomacy.

The US is now a net exporter of oil.

Jerusalem becomes once again Israel’s capital.

The two facts above are not unrelated in my view.


22 posted on 12/06/2017 8:30:32 AM PST by Hostage (Article V)
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Every recent president has promised to move the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem as a candidate

Really? Obama?

23 posted on 12/06/2017 8:37:38 AM PST by plain talk
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To: pgkdan

An early Hanukkah gift to Israel.


24 posted on 12/06/2017 8:40:25 AM PST by Biggirl ("One Lord, one faith, one baptism" - Ephesians 4:5W)
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To: rightwingcrazy
When all hope ends of driving the Jews into the sea, then peace will be possible.

Ding, ding, ding - we have a thread winnah!

25 posted on 12/06/2017 8:42:09 AM PST by GOPJ (Katie Couric - do a 'special' on NBC women who 'put out' to move up the corporate ladder...)
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To: butlerweave
Could be a way to bring people to the table ,what they do at the table who knows

Yeah, this seems to be one of Trump's hidden strengths that may play out well in the end. This, like the whole DACA thing seem to be bull-in-a-china-shop ways of bringing people to the table. Subtle and not subtle at the same time. Shrewd?

26 posted on 12/06/2017 9:03:49 AM PST by rivercat
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The British and French embassies are in Tel Aviv according the Bing search results I got.

Moving the embassy will be expensive. I assume Congress would have to appropriate funds to pay for the move.

The embassy and staffers housing will take up real estate in the holy city of Jerusalem that highly religious Jews might wish to live in.

Each country gets to pick its capital. Our official recognition of Israel’s choice adds nothing to the physical fact of the Knesset.


27 posted on 12/06/2017 9:11:54 AM PST by Brian Griffin
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The embassy of the Russian Federation is also in Tel Aviv.

https://www.bing.com/search?q=Russian+embassy+Israel&form=HPNTDF&pc=EUPP_HPNTDF&src=IE-SearchBox


28 posted on 12/06/2017 9:13:56 AM PST by Brian Griffin
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“So the kabuki will unfold in “the Arab street,” but the intransigent Palestinians for the first time are discovering that intransigence makes things worse for them. They will pay a price now. The unspoken message is that if they don’t come to the table with a new attitude, things will get even worse.”

This.


29 posted on 12/06/2017 9:14:18 AM PST by KyCats
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The Embassy of the People’s Republic of China is also in Tel Aviv.

https://www.bing.com/search?q=China%20embassy%20Israel&qs=n&form=QBRE&sp=-1&pq=china%20embassy%20israel&sc=3-20&sk=&cvid=8CE84761076444F194F115C8544033C3


30 posted on 12/06/2017 9:15:32 AM PST by Brian Griffin
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And there is the ripple effect:

African states say they will follow Trump in moving their embassies to Jerusalem

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During Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s trip last week to Africa for the swearing-in of Kenya’s president, he met with the presidents of African states Gabon, Uganda, Tanzania, Zambia, Rwanda, South Sudan, Botswana and Namibia, and with the Prime Minister of Ethiopia.

Israel sees rising African economies as potential bountiful new markets, and has reportedly signed a swathe of lucrative arms deals with several countries on the continent.

31 posted on 12/06/2017 11:00:18 AM PST by Oatka
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LOL I love this because I refuse to buy and hate slimey cheese.

“As far as I am concerned, the Middle East “peace process” is to “peace” as “processed cheese” is to “cheese”: a fake, cheap imitation that only faintly resembles the real thing. Both melt easily, but that is a positive factor only for the ersatz fromage.”

I hate to say this, but when the Israelites went into the promised land they were progressive snowflakes even then by not annihilating the people who practiced child sacrifice as they were commanded. They allowed some of those kingdoms to live and made the people servants.

The Israelites were warned not to do the same evil or they would suffer the same consequence. They did. It’s been 40 years since Israel legalized pre-born child sacrifice. There are only 5 nations today where it is still illegal. It is an abomination that causes desolation.


32 posted on 12/06/2017 12:05:44 PM PST by huldah1776 ( Vote Pro-life! Allow God to bless America before He avenges the death of the innocent.)
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