Trump is moving America's Israeli embassy to Jerusalem. This undermines his administration's larger Middle East strategies against Iran and ISIS, and effectively ends the Israeli-Palestinian peace process. But there's a small silver lining. My latest here:https://arcdigital.media/by-moving-u-s-embassy-to-jerusalem-trump-kills-the-two-state-solution-a3fc5a8aa15f …
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Replying to @NGrossman81
The point about a productive coalition with Sunni Arabs sticks out: Why provoke Muslims at a time where they are working so positively with Israel? Part of me thinks this is no deeper than “nothing worked before so I’m gonna do the opposite.”
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Replying to @JasonBakerJB
That's a plausible theory. But I lean more towards thinking it's a different conception of goals. I can't figure out how this might help the peace process. But it clearly helps the advocates of Greater Israel.
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Replying to @NGrossman81
My sticking point as well: Keep hearing the “first part of a peace process” argument but can’t see how it gets to that. At least not with agreement between both sides, which would be required for true peace.
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In response to that, I've asked "how?" Haven't gotten a plausible answer. It's not hard to do when something actually advances the peace process. For example, Hamas denouncing violence and giving up its rockets would advance the peace process. How? By improving Israeli security.
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