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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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CuriousLurker7/19/2012 9:37:12 am PDT

re: #59 Destro

It is clear to me also the Palestinian leadership was composed of near criminals and terrorists but who were not smart enough to end that behavior like the Northern Irish IRA did. It is not easy to transition from a fighter to a statesmen but the IRA did it and I think the Basque ETA did. The Armenians also used to have terror operations against the Turks but that ended when Armenia got her independence. It is smaller than historic Armenia but Armenia re-emerging seems to have allowed some healing there. The PLO under Arafat reminded me a lot of the Tamil Tigers in Sri Lanka (I am a bit of a foreign policy nerd) and the Tamils were offered autonomy and a I felt a generous peace deal to end the war and they refused to sign like the PLO leadership refused to sign. Then they go and elect nuts like Hamas over secularists who may try and deal with Israel. With that said the far right in Israel (Likud) does seem to want to antagonize the Palestinians by expanding settlements into the West Bank. When you antagonize people they tend to double down on being confrontational. At this point neither the Palis nor the Israelis want to deal with each other though of course the Israelis have the dominant position of power and alliances.

You lost me. I don’t understand what any of that has to do with the singular and very specific point I was addressing.