Althouse: "The United States has become the first country with an embassy to Israel located in Jerusalem, the disputed city claimed as a capital by both Israeli and Palestinian people."

May 14, 2018

"The United States has become the first country with an embassy to Israel located in Jerusalem, the disputed city claimed as a capital by both Israeli and Palestinian people."

"The new embassy was dedicated on Monday in a ceremony attended by Israeli leaders and senior White House advisers. Tens of thousands of Palestinians are protesting the move, and dozens of Palestinians have been killed by Israeli armed forces, according to the Gaza Health Ministry.... For many years the U.S. — like the rest of the world's countries — have declined to put the embassy in Jerusalem, saying that the status of the city needs to be decided in peace talks with the Palestinians. President Trump made a campaign promise to relocate the embassy. He was not the first president to make such a promise, but he is the first to actually make the move.

NPR reports.

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Robert Cook said...: "But of course, recognizing complexity is difficult, and it's always simpler to name one group The Oppressor and another group The Oppressed. If you're on the left, The Oppressed are Palestinians Arabs (Christian and Muslim). If you're on the right, The Oppressed are Israeli Jews forced to live under attack from their neighbors.

"It has always been my position that you do not need to have partisan interests in the conflict to recognize its moral and historical complexity."

J.Farmer, consider who you're addressing. Anything more complex than "This good, that bad!" is beyond their capacity to process.; 5/15/18, 6:55 AM
Freeman Hunt said...: Is it really a "protest" or "demonstration" once you start hurling rocks with slingshots and have armed men cutting open the fence to get inside?; 5/15/18, 7:28 AM
exiledonmainstreet, green-eyed devil said...: J.Farmer, consider who you're addressing. Anything more complex than "This good, that bad!" is beyond their capacity to process.

5/15/18, 6:55 AM

Right, we should all automatically condemn the US like you do, Mr. Nuanced Thinker. You show so much complexity of thought.; 5/15/18, 7:34 AM
DanTheMan said...: >>Anything more complex than "This good, that bad!" is beyond their capacity to process.

Your lack of self-awareness in that comment is amazing...; 5/15/18, 7:41 AM
Birkel said...: ...said Robert Cook, the man who is unaware of the most influential theories of ethics.; 5/15/18, 7:44 AM
Dear corrupt left, go F yourselves said...: Democrats for TIRE FIRES! Democrats for TIRE FIRES!; 5/15/18, 8:10 AM
narciso said...: The rest of the story

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2018/05/the_office_of_national_assessment_paid_stefan_halper__why.html; 5/15/18, 8:46 AM
Dear corrupt left, go F yourselves said...: Why normal Americans HATE HIllarywoodland

https://www.hollywoodintoto.com/celebrities-blame-palestinian-deaths-trump/; 5/15/18, 9:35 AM
readering said...: Remember, the demonstrators shot in the thousands are more akin to people trying to cross from Arizona to New Mexico or from an Indian reservation than from Mexico to Arizona.; 5/15/18, 11:32 AM
readering said...: Remember, the demonstrators shot in the thousands are more akin to people trying to cross from Arizona to New Mexico or from an Indian reservation than from Mexico to Arizona.; 5/15/18, 11:32 AM
Daniel Jackson said...: "Remember, the demonstrators shot in the thousands are more akin to people trying to cross from Arizona to New Mexico or from an Indian reservation than from Mexico to Arizona."

No. They. Are. Not.; 5/15/18, 2:10 PM
Birkel said...: readering,
So you are saying Arizonans are shooting Iranian made missiles into New Mexico? Rifles, slingshots, and explosives too?

Dumb ass.; 5/15/18, 2:49 PM
Alex said...: It's beautiful to witness the sheer impotent rage of the Israel-haters. There will be no UN sanctions, no cut-off of military assistance, nothing but impotent rage from the usual suspects(EU, Ritmo, Obummer).

LOL; 5/15/18, 10:59 PM