Nearly 50 years before President Trump’s controversial decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capitol of Israel, a SECRET Central Intelligence Agency report had already declared the issue of the city’s ownership a “stumbling block” which could sink the entire peace process, and worse, one “without prospects” for a solution.
The report, discovered in the CIA’s declassified archives, had been sent in a memo to then-Secretary of State Henry Kissinger as a refresher on then-recent history of Jerusalem’s occupation.
As one could glean from the title, the report was less than optimistic …
and comes to the rather glum conclusion that both sides seem “irreconcilable.”
Though it’s worth noting that Palestinians aren’t even given the dignity of a side.
As for what the nameless analyst would make of this week’s curveball, that’s anybody’s guess.
https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/2017/dec/07/jerusalem-report/
“declared the issue of the city’s ownership a “stumbling block” which could sink the entire peace process,…”
Seriously?
That so-called ‘peace process’ was submerged from the beginning.
Just a note on your first paragraph: Trumps main decision was to allow the Jerusalem Embassy, passed into US law in 1995, to go forward. This is another of his attempts to force the three branches of government to do their jobs and none else. If folks don’t like what he did, they should contact their Congress critter and tell them to rescind the 1995 act.
HAHAHAHA!!! C’mon. ….you’re kidding, right? SMFH
“If folks don’t like what he did, they should contact their Congress critter and tell them to rescind the 1995 act.”
Boy howdy… you’re some kinda SPECIAL stupid, ain’t ya.