Trump to declare Jerusalem capital of Israel on Wednesday.

Will there ever be a "good" time to move the Embassy? If history is any teacher, the answer is "no". When it comes to the Jews and Israel, the time is never "right".

The West does not understand the Middle East and they never have.  Just about every time the West meddles to make things better it goes sideways.

President Obama appeared to be the first of the US Presidents to understand when he said before we commit to get involved do we have an answer to the guestion “then what?”

 Think for a minute about what happened after any country from the West thought they knew how to fix whatever ailed a particular part of Middle East.  How many asked and answered the question “then what?” after they mettled?  Few.

Now we have trump who is either intellectually lazy or incredibly dumb and who, by his own words, thinks he is very smart making a decision that he didn’t ask/answer the question  “then what?”  And I suspect his advisers didn’t ask or answer the question either.  Not that trump would have listened to him if they had.

trump has made the announcement and we will see the consequences of not answering the question “then what?”

By the way you would think by now trump would have learned how to give a prepared speech without looking like a 5 year old trying to pronounce big words.  The network interrupted my program for his announcement.  I had the TV on mute so I got the full affect of watching without listening to him talk  and it was just plain weird.  

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Before you get on your high horse to try and justify your argument, the majority of the people of Northern Ireland don't want to be part of the Irish Republic. England is not holding anyone to ransom there they have a democratic vote.

You don't make any sense. You need to brush up on your history if you're going to argue this point. Northern Ireland, as it is now known, did not or indeed want to, join the Republic of Ireland when they were given their independence in 1921....they still do not wish to join the Republic of Ireland.So they don't have a "foreign" government governing them.

Find another topic because you obviously don't know what your talking about.

I can understand why we should not move the Embassy. What I can't understand, is why we SHOULD. Who cares if it's in Jerusalem or Tel Aviv? Why did we need an act of Congress about it in the first place? What am I missing? Keep in mind I'm not one to get heavily invested in politics and the whole Jerusalem belongs to Israel thing bothers me just as much as taking all the Native American land away. We can't undo that one, but if the Native Americans came together as one tribe and wanted half of D.C. as their capitol I couldn't really say they didn't have a valid point. Why is only Israel in the right? Why does the US seem to take that view while much of Europe seems to get that the Palestinians might be entitled to some compromise? I gather it has something to do with Christians feeling the Jews need to be in the Holy Land so all of Christ's followers can be included in the Rapture, or some religious nonsensical argument like that, what do I know.

My treehouse hermitage in Oregon sounds more and more appealing. Or maybe I'll disappear down a cave, that sounds good too.

A Christian perspective from several heads-of-churches (includes Episcopalian and several Catholic rites, so Roman Catholic archbishop is listed as "Latin") who actually LIVE AND WORK in Jerusalem.

They're agin' it. Worth a read.

Another example that American Evangelicals don't speak for all Christians.

 You mean by the IRA method.

I disagree with you because you've got your facts wrong. 

Who were responsible for the bomb attack at the King David Hotel which housed the British administrative headquarters for Palestine in 1946.

And I'm sure #notLauren has heard of Kach and Kahane Chai  Israeli terrorist groups who attempted to bomb a girls high school and a hospital in East Jerusalem.

Says one of the biggest (or is it bigly) pokers of all on this board.

Putting politics aside, moving an embassy costs a lot of money, you don’t just rent out an office building you have to build a secure compound. It’s absurd to go do this just for the sake of it.

No, they don't get to be a part of England. England is its own country, and one of four that make up the United Kingdom. Scotland, England, Wales and Northern Ireland. The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. It's not difficult. 

Also, this is one of those things that is easy to say and not as easy to do. I feel like trump just says stuff -- probably to appease his base -- and then loses interest when he moves on to the next thing. To move an embassy is not something done overnight. Never mind all the other logistics there's the small matter of having to build it in Jerusalem. But where will it be built. After all those negotiations then they have to start digging. And do you know what happens in Israel when anyone starts digging? They find stuff. Old stuff. And the archeologists descend and halt construction for ages while they see what's been found. It will take a long time, and meanwhile....what? trump has done is part to destabilize the region even more than it already is.