About time.
In addition Trump threw a few bones to the Arabs saying the Jerusalem was equally important to them. He also made sure to say that this recognition doesn’t in any way preclude Israel agreeing to divide Jerusalem so that the Palestinians could have a capital in eastern part of Jerusalem.
He made one other important statement when he said it is up to the younger generation, I think referring to Mohammed ben Salman, to forge a new path.
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@ Sebastien Zorn:
I think the White House will have to push the State Dept. into changing things like passports and maps. Too many Arabists in the State Dept. Some of these people resist resist anything pro Israel and lots of things Trump would want done.
@ yamit82:
Is this sufficient or will it be necessary to bring the same or a similar case back to the Supreme Court? Does Congress need to pass another law, or is this sufficient to overturn the Supreme Court’s decision in 2015 to overturn the law Congress passed making births in Jerusalem, Israel to be printed on U.S. passports as Jerusalem, Israel?
https://www.timesofisrael.com/us-supreme-court-jerusalem-born-americans-cant-list-israel-as-birthplace/
The Supreme Court has reversed itself in the past, as with the “Separate but Equal” question, first with Plessy v. Ferguson in the 1890s and then with Brown v. Board of Ed in the 1950s.
If the Supreme Court failed to heed the Presiden’t change in U.S. foreign policy as well as Congress, there would be a constitutional crisis, I would think.
Trump did the right thing and recognized the reality that Jerusalem is the capital of Israel. I believe in due course he will move the embassy and things like Jerusalem born Americans will say Israel on their USA passport as place of birth. Boundaries are the issue however as Trump left that up to Israel and the Palestinians.
The Palestinians in their frothing at the mouth about Trumps recognition failed to pay attention that he did not say a unified Jerusalem and still left open the possibility of a two state solution if both sides agreed to it.
Since the Pals were never willing to compromise from any of their core demands, their delusion about forcing Israel out Jerusalem via USA and international pressure has exploded into their faces as a failed tactic. Israel clearly has to agree to any concessions it makes. In other words Israel has a complete veto on a Palestinian State.
Israel should now build more towns in the Jordan Valley and enlarge the ones there, as too few Jews live in the Jordan Valley. Israel also needs to build in E1 and all of the existing Jewish Towns in Judea/Samaria. This is the first immediate step needed to take full advantage of the freedom Israel has with Trump as a friend in the White House.
@ yamit82:
Shall we have a gentleman’s bet (no money changes hands) that this was an oversight that will be corrected while Trump is still in office (probably on the quiet.)?
The State Dept. will have no choice but to do as he directs them to, and in his speech he directed them to begin the process of building an embassy there. But, they will obviously take advantage of every loophole to resist this and him so they won’t do anything he doesn’t explicitly direct them to.
I think Trump Conned us!!!
A day later, no plans for ‘Jerusalem, Israel,’ on US passports
Despite Trump’s recognition, official American government documents won’t list city as capital.
So did Putin. Back in April of this year.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/in-historic-first-russia-recognizes-west-jerusalem-as-israels-capital/
“The Czech Republic currently, before the peace between Israel and Palestine is signed, recognizes Jerusalem to be in fact the capital of Israel in the borders of the demarcation line from 1967,” said a statement issued by the Czech foreign ministry.
That means in western part of Jerusalem.