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Palestinians seek to mobilise Mideast against Trump embassy move

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The city’s status is one of the thorniest issues of the decades-long Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Why would anyone, particularly a world leader, pour even more fuel on a fire that's long been burning. Even talking about shifting the embassy angers already angry Palestinians plus probably most of the 1.7 billion Muslims worldwide who see Jerusalem from a very different perspective than Trump and rightwing US Christians. Israelis will be put at even greater risk because of this.

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Actually, the status of the city is probably the second or third 'thorniest' issue, the 'thorniest' (for supporters of the Israeli regime and the regime itself) is finding a legal way for the regime to keep denying citizenship and residency rights to a vast swath of its legal population. Because, just as was the case in South Africa, the regime's existence can only be maintained by that (illegal, under international law) denial, and the legitimacy of supporting that regime rests on widespread ignorance/willful blindness of that situation. Indeed, it is quite likely that the regime's refusal to allow any reasonable proposals on the other 'thorny' issues to become adopted practice is that if the last outstanding issue were that exclusion, it would be impossible for it to be ignored, overshadowed, or lost in the general babble.

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Indeed, Richard.

This isn't helped by journalism lazily referring to Trump's appointment of

his ambassador to the Jewish state

doubtless to the delight of Donald's bankruptcy lawyer.

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If this goes through, it will ignite a war in the Region and cause so much chaos and instability that it will take the ME decades to recover from

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To Israel and Trump, Palestinians and their allies like Hezbollah and Iran are terrorists

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