What is your opinion on officially claiming Jerusalem as the capital of Israel?

Personally, even as a hard line Zionist, I don't see the point in unnecessarily angering people and inflaming an already volatile situation. We know that Jerusalem is the capital of Israel, isn't that enough?

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Subsumedpat · 36-40, M

Trump is doing it because he thinks it will play well on Twitter and is not concerned with the right or wrong of the thing. It stirs up his base and that is all he cares about.

Xuan12 · 31-35, M

@Subsumedpat Wait, he's actually doing that? Well shit. Now some innocent people get to die for no reason.

Subsumedpat · 36-40, M

@Xuan12 Innocent people die for no reason all the time, see Iraq and ISIS

Xuan12 · 31-35, M

@Subsumedpat Doesn't mean we should try to make it happen though. If futility was a policy why not drop all the nukes right now? No one makes it out alive anyway, right?

Subsumedpat · 36-40, M

@Xuan12 Did not mean to say we should make it happen just the opposite I think we should not.

Xuan12 · 31-35, M

@Subsumedpat Ah, indeed. I just read up on it a little. Apparently the embassy move wouldn't be made for several years. No kidding! He is putting a massive target on their backs after all.

katielass · F

@Subsumedpat What am I getting for Christmas miss cleo?

Subsumedpat · 36-40, M

@Xuan12 I mentioned it somewhere already but why do we need to move, is there anything wrong with our embassy in Tel Aviv, how much is it going to cost to move and who is going to pay for it and what are we going to get out of it other than to make a point and piss some people off and likely get some embassy employees killed who would not have been killed.