Why Trump and Jerusalem was not about peace

Concur. God forbid we disrupt the status quo that has seen conflict for 50 plus years.

Remains to be seen what the long term impact of this move will be. I'm struck by the words of our U.N. Ambassador about this move......basically saying that our move of the embassy will have no impact on the various religious groups in Jerusalem, or their ability to worship at their respective holy sites, and should therefore not be the cause of any violent reactions. So I'm wondering......if moving our embassy is basically a non-issue, and won't have an impact, then why did we make the move in the first place? And why did the Prime Minister push so hard for it? If this works out......that's fine. But if it only serves to throw gasoline on a fire that's been burning for centuries........seems like an unforced error to me. Every time we try to shape the politics of that region, all we seem to do is make matters worse......that's pretty much our record in that part of the world. Remember when we tried to prop us and support the Shah of Iran? That worked soooo well for us. We armed the Afghan resistance against the Russians, and then faced our own weapons being used against us a few years later. We backed Iraq against Iran, and then went to war with Iraq a few years later. We brokered a peace agreement between Egypt and Israel, and got the Egyptian leader assassinated as a result of it. We always mean well......but the fact of the matter is that we don't understand the politics of the region, and they resent us pretending we do. This may have been one of those things that we should have left well enough alone.......time will tell.

SSgt Gary Andrews - It has an impact on Israel and its sense of legitimacy. Few nations in the world accept their existence and they hope that the US will lead others to accept the legitimacy in Jerusalem as the US led in accepting their status as a sovereign nation. As our best ally in the region, possibly the world, we owe them that act of friendship and support. Sadly, few understand the peoples of the Middle East and they keep trying to treat them as they would treat Europeans. They are not remotely European. They are not inheritors of Western Civilization. They are tribes who only stop bickering among themselves over the limited resources of the desert when they have an outside enemy to contend with. The Persians were the only civilization capable of ruling over the Arabs, but they lost their cache when they adopted Islam, albeit a greatly altered form of Islam that Arab Muslims abjured. (An insult still cast at Iraqis is "Do you still worship fire?" - an allusion to their roots in Zoroastrianism) Today, anyone who would reanimate the Caliphate must begin by uniting these Arab tribes, unifying them against a common enemy and Israel is the convenient candidate, and their ally, US.