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Originally Posted by Da33le
Forgive me, I’m not Jewish, and not an expert on that region. Can you please explain to me what he actually did?
The cliffs notes on this "win" is that Israel has always wanted international recognition of Jerusalem as it's capital because of religious reasons and not Tel Aviv. Many presidents have said that they'd move the embassy to Jerusalem to recognize it as Israel's capital. The problem is that Jerusalem is also claimed as the capital of Palestine and it's a major city for a lot of faiths so having it claimed by Israel is controversial --- a major concession for Palestine to give it up. The reason no past President who promised to move the embassy there actually did it is because it was supposed to be part of a two state settlement where Israel would give back some portions of occupied and contested territory. You know ... a compromise. Of course that never happened because the only Israeli PM to strike a deal that would make that happen was assassinated by a religious but job.
So why did Dr. Deals move the embassy without getting anything in return?? Is he just had at deals actually? Not really. Donald actually did get something but it wasn't for peace in the region or anything stupid like that. No, Donald either believes it himself or knows a lot of evangelicals in the USofA believe that the second coming of Christ won't happen until "the Jews" have a capital in Jerusalem because they take the Revelations chapter of the bible literally. So that's why he moved it.
Beau probably doesn't care about any of the above he just cares that Trump got a "W" by keeping a campaign promise that last presidents didn't keep (again because that promise was always contingent on a grander deal)