[Skybird]

Trump recognizes Jerusalem as capital of Israel. By that he delivers on another promise and pays back to the Jewish donators supporting his campaign.

If this decision survives, it ends a chapter of decades of completely failed and clueless European and American Middle East policy, that the Europeans and the UN still want to continue on the grounds of wishful thinking, cowardice, and reality-denying illusions.

While this decision implies admittance of failure of the past diplomatic paradigm, it does not replace it with a better alternative. It is an end of the guaranteed negative quality, without offering a new positive quality. But it shakes up the established long-held, petrified status quo. I can imagine both good or bad coming from this shaking alone.

However, I agree with this decision.

That this decision will live beyond Trump, however is in question. Before the US embassy can be moved from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, a new one has to be build in Jerusalem. And that, with all preparing work before, will take years. Years that maybe will see Trump leaving office. And his successor maybe stopping it while the embassy still sits in Tel Aviv.

Maybe Trump even knows that he may have delivered just words here, no deeds to be feared. Or he knows not. Who knows. Wjat was it that Rumsfeld once philosophised about knowns and unknowns... LOL

Outcome of all this? Uncertain. For Israel I hope that the decision will stand beyond Trump's reign. But I am anything but sure that it will.

That the Islamic lobby organisation named UN cries '"sky falling", was to be expected. I do not care for them either.