Re: POTUS 46:24 - Donald Trump! Superstar!!
haven't read everything in the thread, but I have a question about the Jerusalem comments. Why the F does it matter if Drumpf or anyone else other than the citizens of Israel/Palestine declares Jerusalem the capital of Israel? Is it because of the fact that another country recognizes it as Jewish the reason it would spark the tensions?
Because it means we are taking sides in the Israel-Palestine conflict.
For many decades, we (the US) have been trying to be a mediator between Israel and their neighbors, even with us being pretty strong allies with Israel. And it's been reasonably effective- there has been some progress made. But when President Obama called out Israel for some of their actions, it put the whole thing back on the back burner. dump pretended that he cared and was going to solve this conflict with a two state solution.
That State of Palestine would likely have it's capitol in Jerusalem. Given that in 1947, the original borders, Israel did NOT include Jerusalem, it was part of Palestinian territory, this kind of makes sense.
Even now, with the current borders, Palestine would put the capitol there.
So when dump said he was really going to solve this and create two states, I'm sure those on the Palestine side figured they would get a new capitol in Jerusalem.
And had dump said that this is part of the US making a two state solution- then we would still have some credibility solving the problem. But that's not what happened. dump just took a dump on Palestine, and ended any possibility that the US will have any influence on the peace process.
Add that to the whole Muslim ban, and he's really putting some bricks in the wall of hate to the US, let alone kill our credibility with countries that used to be our allies.
If you want to go whole conspiracy- he's doing a great job making sure our arms manufacturers will keep selling a lot of stuff, and we will have to fund our armies. Which was a decent read from Tom Clancy.