Grand Admiral Cheesecake wrote:Stuuupid shits. Congress voted to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel in the fucking 90's. And has continued to support it ever since.
Including earlier this year. Clinton, George W, and Obama just ignored what Congress wanted in the matter.
Are people really so fucked in the head that recognizing a basic truth of a situation is in some way scandalous? It's been their capital for YEARS the Palestinians are going to continue murdering people for their backwards death cult. The only thing that changes in this is that we're not continuing to lie to coddle the feelings of violent barbarians half a world away.
And yet, US had kept its embassy at Tel Aviv. So, whatever Congress might have voted, didn't matter in worldwide politics. But now that US had so publicly changed its stance, it's a huge deal. Not only this Trump's statement is foreign policy mess (already hundreds of injured people in that area), what Trump did, was effectively intervening with sovereignty of foreign country. No matter, if Israel welcomed this change or not.
As matter of fact, this kind of policy is really damn dangerous. What Trump did, would be same thing, if Duma and then Putin would state tomorrow, that they move their Ukraine embassy from Kiev to Donetsk area and that Ukraine's new capital is on that area. You can bet, it would cause huge worldwide objection. Hell, by going with this, Canada could state tomorrow that they move their embassy to Topeka for example and make that US new capital. This is what Trump did.
What comes to latter part, if we go with that argument, you're basically saying that people should just accept the fact that Jerusalem had been Israel capital for ages. But, in the same way people should also accept that Trump is unfit to continue as a president as there is evidence to support this. And before you object, it's virtually exactly same thing. Yet, it's obvious that people supporting Trump won't accept this or see it. The same way as most of the world won't accept this Israel embassy debacle. So, guess there are indeed lots of people fucked it the head indeed.