Next year in Jerusalem

What Trump is doing now, for no better reason than to keep some American voters happy, is rubbing the Arabs’ noses in their defeat. Being normal human beings, they will respond by re-opening the struggle—not to the point where they risk being destroyed by Israel, but at least enough to save face and do a lot of damage, writes Gwynne Dyer.

U.S. President Donald Trump has announced that the United States will recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and move the US embassy there. File photograph

Opinion

BY GWYNNE DYER

December 7, 2017

“All of us are saying: ‘Hey, United States, we don’t think this is a very good idea’,” said Jordan’s King Abdullah II in 2002, when it became clear that President George W. Bush was going to invade Iraq. But Bush didn’t listen, and it turned out to be an extremely bad idea. This time,...

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