Alan Keyes: Trump’s Jerusalem decision: More than praiseworthy

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Trump’s Jerusalem decision: More than praiseworthy

In 1995, The United States Congress passed (by a vote of 374-37 in the U.S. House of Representatives, and 93-5 in the U.S. Senate) the bill entitled the Jerusalem Embassy Act of 1995. Its stated purpose was “to provide for the relocation of the United States Embassy to Jerusalem. …” So, why is the United States Embassy to Israel still physically located in Tel Aviv? Because the Jerusalem Embassy Act of 1995 was rather a hollow act, precisely in the sense evoked by T.S. Elliot in his famous poem:

Like every president since Congress enacted it, President Clinton did not move the U.S. Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem. Instead, he implemented the law exactly according to its terms. Those terms provided for the president to waive the deadline specified in the law, a waiver renewable at six-month intervals. Until now, every president since Clinton has done likewise. Each of them certified that national-security considerations overshadowed the provisions of the Act, making it necessary to postpone the action it declared by law to be the desired goal of America’s United States.

Read more at: http://www.wnd.com/2017/12/trumps-jerusalem-decision-more-than-praiseworthy/

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Even if some Democrats might be for this decision; just imagine how difficult it has been to elect a Republican. If it didn't get done now, who knows when it could have finally gotten done? 12 years from now? And so on.

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Some interesting history:

Jerusalem and the history of Dec. 9

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On Dec. 9, 1917, during World War I, British forces led by Gen. Allenby captured Jerusalem from the Ottoman Empire.

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