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Why didn't the US government move the American Embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem

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CuriousLurker7/17/2012 10:37:04 am PDT

re: #18 Destro

It can also be a case of the Arabs or Muslim side looking at history and saying, this happened before, Europeans made a state in the holy land and it lasted about a hundred years till the Muslims got a Saladin that defeated the Crusaders. So the Arabs maybe thinking; “why negotiate with Israel when we will win in due time due to attrition?”

That would only be viable if there were a large a pan-Arab state that encompassed an area & population similar to that of the Ayyubid dynasty founded by Saladin. The Arabs don’t have leaders like that anymore (and he wasn’t an Arab anyway, he was a Kurd), nor do they have that sort of cohesion. There have been several attempts at creating a pan-Arab state over the past 100 years or so and all have failed. Anyone who is waiting for that is daydreaming.

Besides, everyone assumes that Israel has nuclear weapons, even though they maintain a policy of ambiguity. I have zero doubt it would use them if it felt its existence was threatened. That, in turn, would undoubtedly trigger WW III, leading to death, destruction, and suffering the likes of which I’d rather not be alive to witness.