{"id":338944,"date":"2017-12-11T17:25:37","date_gmt":"2017-12-11T16:25:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/trumps-jerusalem-decision-risks-uniting-the-entire-arab-world-against-the-us\/"},"modified":"2017-12-11T17:25:37","modified_gmt":"2017-12-11T16:25:37","slug":"trumps-jerusalem-decision-risks-uniting-the-entire-arab-world-against-the-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/trumps-jerusalem-decision-risks-uniting-the-entire-arab-world-against-the-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s Jerusalem Decision Risks Uniting the Entire Arab World Against the US"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<div id=\"attachment_98120\" style=\"max-width: 520px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-98120\" src=\"https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2017\/12\/Screen-Shot-2017-12-07-at-4.45.03-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"510\" height=\"340\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Kristoffer Trolle | <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.0\/\">CC BY 2.0<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>President Trump and the Israeli government will have foreseen and discounted a Palestinian \u201cday of rage\u201d and protests among Muslims everywhere in the wake of the US recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and\u00a0plans to move its embassy there. They assume that this will all blow over because US allies such as the rulers of Saudi Arabia, UAE and Egypt will be satisfied with pro-forma protests, and the Palestinians are too weak to do anything except demonstrate ineffectively.<\/p>\n<p>The US and Israel could be miscalculating: when I lived in Jerusalem I came to believe that many dramatic events in Israel, such as shootings and bombings, often had less effect than the outside world expected. But anything involving Jerusalem itself, and above all its Muslim holy sites, had a much bigger impact than anybody had imagined.<\/p>\n<p>The immediate consequence of Trump\u2019s action is that the US becomes weaker because it has carried out another initiative of which\u00a0the rest of the world disapproves. A superpower at the height of its strength might get away with such a demarche, but not a politically divided US, its influence already ebbing because of failures in Iraq and Afghanistan. The move is so obviously against US foreign policy interests that it will further persuade other world leaders that Trump is an impossible ally.<\/p>\n<p>The move could have other dangerous consequences. There is a myth that the Israeli-Palestinian struggle was not an issue&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2017\/12\/11\/trumps-jerusalem-decision-risks-uniting-the-entire-arab-world-against-the-us\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo by Kristoffer Trolle | CC BY 2.0 President Trump and the Israeli government will have foreseen and discounted a Palestinian \u201cday of rage\u201d and protests among Muslims everywhere in the wake of the US recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and\u00a0plans to move its embassy there. They assume that this will all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-338944","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=338944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338944\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}