Australia reverses decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and removes US Embassy to the city
The US Embassy in Jerusalem was to open its doors in a week, with diplomats and American Jewish leaders celebrating the symbolic move.
But a day after the embassy opened, Arab leaders denounced Washington and said its decision was “inappropriate and dangerous”.
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said the embassy should be in the Palestinian capital Ramallah.
President Donald Trump said he supported Israel and did so before the embassy was erected.
The decision of the US to move its embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, Israel’s capital, was seen as sending a stark message that the land was indeed meant to be the seat of Israel’s government.
But then there’s the matter of the symbolism.
The decision of the US to move its embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem was seen as sending a stark message that the land was indeed meant to be the seat of Israel’s government.
But then there’s the matter of the symbolism. The move – after years of stalled negotiations – was seen as an attempt to demonstrate support to Jerusalem as the future capital of Israel.
But the move did not actually resolve the decades of Israeli-Palestinian conflict, which has been marked by violence, and so many other factors.
President Donald Trump moved the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, reversing decades of US policy.
In fact, the move by President Donald Trump was more about symbolic than it was about real political change.
Trump’s decision was not just an unprecedented diplomatic victory for Israel; it was an unprecedented political victory for Trump and his supporters, who have often cast him as a strong American leader.
So here is a look back at where Trump started to reverse decades of US foreign policy towards Israel, and where he is now.
Trump’s first major foreign-policy move as president was to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital
Trump’s decision to move the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem was not, as many people predicted, a real diplomatic breakthrough for the Jewish state.
But then there’s the matter of the symbolism.
The decision by President Donald Trump was not just an unprecedented diplomatic victory for Israel. It was an unprecedented political one. — Ben White (@BenWhite) May 14, 2018
After decades of failed negotiations, President Donald Trump signed an executive order to officially recognize Jerusalem as the Israeli capital.