The US president has published a Twitter video showing former American presidents pledging to move the US embassy to Jerusalem but without doing so, he wrote: 'I have fulfilled my promise. The others didn't live.
US president Donald Trump on Friday boasted about his achievement, which stunned the world and sparked the uproar in the Middle East, as an American recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, saying that, unlike others, he was in his promise. While the year of anger escalates in the Arab world, and the condemnation of the unjust resolution of the rights of Palestinians in Jerusalem intensifies, Trump is keen to to broadcast that he is making history, assuring his constituents that he will enter history as the president who has made peace in the Middle East.
To find out why Trump has made the decision that might ignite the Middle East according to politicians, beekeepers and observers in the region, Orly writes Azasay, in the daily Yediot Aharonot, on Friday from Washington, that he must look at the promises of Trump during his campaign, those that he could not None of them have yet achieved: the cancellation of the nuclear agreement with Iran, the cancellation of the Obama health insurance plan, the construction of the wall with Mexico, a comprehensive reform of the United States immigration policy.
Azasay pointed out that the President was compelled to fulfill a promise of his promises to satisfy the Americans who voted for him on the basis of these promises, and to restore the popularity that he has begun to lose at this stage of his mandate.
In addition to this motive, Azasay writes that the president has been under great pressure from Israel to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, especially during the visit conducted by the president in the city, accompanied by this pressure and promised by the Israeli prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, that Israel was ready to face all Scenarios resulting from an American declaration on Jerusalem.
Trump also came under severe pressure from evangelical Americans, who have a strong relationship, especially with Israel and Jerusalem. It should be noted that the Vice-President, Michael Pines, belongs to this community. The decision was preceded by a propaganda campaign launched by the leaders of the evangelical Christians in the United States, led by Mike Haope, the father of the spokesperson the White House, Sara Haby Anderson, called for pressure on the president to move the embassy to Jerusalem and to recognize it as the 'eternal' capital of Israel.
The Israeli journalist adds that the US president, who is mired in the Russian intervention in the US election, has found a chance to distract American media on the issue, especially after his former chancellor, Mike Flynn, admitted that he lied to investigators about his relations with the Russians.