{"id":69195,"date":"2020-09-17T02:49:33","date_gmt":"2020-09-16T23:49:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/trumps-peace-deal-shows-us-embassy-in-jerusalem-is-game-changer\/"},"modified":"2020-09-17T02:49:33","modified_gmt":"2020-09-16T23:49:33","slug":"trumps-peace-deal-shows-us-embassy-in-jerusalem-is-game-changer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/trumps-peace-deal-shows-us-embassy-in-jerusalem-is-game-changer\/","title":{"rendered":"#Trump’s peace deal shows US Embassy in Jerusalem is game-changer"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Trump’s peace deal shows US Embassy in Jerusalem is game<\/a>-changer<\/strong>”
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\n Watching the historic agreement normalizing \u00adrelations between Israel and two Arab states at the White House \u2014 an event neither I nor anyone else who has watched the Middle East closely for the past half-century ever really thought would happ<\/a>en \u2014 I had to acknowledge to myself how wrong I had been.<\/p>\n

Back in 2018, when Team Trump announced it was going to move the US Embassy in \u00adIsrael to Jerusalem from Tel Aviv, I didn\u2019t think it was all that big a deal \u2014 even though I was and remain a resolute and \u00adunconditional supporter of the Jewish state.<\/p>\n

I thought it was a nice gesture that acknowledged an undeniable reality, which is that Israel\u2019s capital is Jerusalem. Moreover, the move was fully in keeping with the 1995 law that mandated the embassy move by 1999 \u2014 a law the Clinton, Bush and Obama administrations had \u201csuspended\u201d every six months since 1999 on the largely spurious grounds that doing so would pose a danger to our security.<\/p>\n

But the move didn\u2019t mean much beyond that, I thought.<\/p>\n

Oh, I was wrong \u2014 though I\u2019m happy to say I was right in dismissing the doom-and-gloom warnings of the foreign-policy establishment about how destabilizing and dangerous it would be for the United States to make the move.<\/p>\n

The idea that the Middle East would turn against Washington and erupt in horrendous street \u00adviolence was based, I thought, on a dated understanding of the relationship between the Arab world and the Palestinians. Where once the Palestinian cause was a binding glue of pan-Arab nationalism, time and politics had marched on and left the sclerotic, unchanging, uncreative and disempowered Palestinians behind.<\/p>\n

Israel\u2019s working relationships behind the scenes with once-key benefactors of the Palestinians \u2014 the Saudis in particular \u2014 made me think there would be no sponsorship of those street riots by regional powers. That proved to be correct.<\/p>\n

Where I was wrong, and where I think many people are wrong even among those who are giving the Trump administration proper credit for its diplomatic triumph, is in failing to grasp the world-historic significance of the embassy move in 2018.<\/p>\n

When the world\u2019s most powerful country recognized \u00adIsrael\u2019s sovereign control over Jerusalem, it finally and formally moved past the now-fanciful notion, dating back to 1947, that the city ought to be governed by some transnational entity.<\/p>\n

The international status of Jerusalem was part of the original UN design of the partition of the British Mandate intended to create homelands for the Jews and for Palestinian Arabs. The Jews said yes. The Arabs said no and launched a war to destroy the Jews.<\/p>\n

Great plan, no?<\/p>\n

Anyway, because of the particular circumstances governing \u00adIsrael\u2019s inception as a nation, its enemies have comforted themselves with the idea that it had been externally imposed on the region and was, therefore, essentially temporary.<\/p>\n

What had been given to the Jews by the United Nations could be taken away. Israel hadn\u2019t been there before. It could go away again.<\/p>\n

The idea of Israel\u2019s potential impermanence is why Palestinians still cling to the notion that they will somehow be able to push the Jews into the sea and control the entire area from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean. It is why Iranian leaders, from ex-President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to head mullah Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, love to trumpet the idea that Israel will \u201cdisappear.\u201d<\/p>\n

And it is why the blanket \u00adresistance in the Arab world to the idea that Israel had dominion over Jerusalem \u2014 first in the western part of the city and then, after its victory in the 1967 Six-Day War, the entirety of it \u2014 was so total.<\/p>\n

For Jerusalem is, unquestionably, permanent. It is as permanent as \u2014 may one dare say it \u2014 the Jewish people ourselves. Its continuous existence from time immemorial is the signature fact of the Middle East.<\/p>\n

To accept Israeli sovereignty over Jerusalem is therefore to accept Israel\u2019s permanence. And this was something even the United States, Israel\u2019s best (and, at times, only) friend in the world, wasn\u2019t willing to do formally.<\/p>\n

And if it wasn\u2019t willing, how could Arab states take the final step to recognize Israel\u2019s existence? If America didn\u2019t fully embrace Israel\u2019s permanence, how could they?<\/p>\n

The embassy move was therefore a huge change in what you might call \u201cgeopolitical psychology.\u201d<\/p>\n

It meant Israel was here to stay forever, and the time had come for Arab nations that want to move forward into the 21st century to accept its existence.<\/p>\n

Never have I been happier to be wrong.<\/p>\n

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