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发帖数: 2018 | 1 WSJ还是会有些比较honest的文章。
http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-reality-of-jerusalem-1512603407
President Trump honored a campaign pledge on Wednesday when he recognized
Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. The decision is hardly the radical
policy departure that critics claim, and Mr. Trump accompanied it with an
embrace of the two-state solution for Palestine that Presidents of both
parties have long supported.
Congress recognized Jerusalem as Israel’s capital in 1995 in a bill
President Clinton declined to veto. Other Presidents have agreed in
principle, and even campaigned on it, but in office they used a waiver to
put off any formal recognition or move the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem from
Tel Aviv. The difference is that Mr. Trump apparently meant what he said as
a candidate.
Mr. Trump called his decision on Wednesday “a recognition of reality,” and
he’s right. Israel’s parliament, Supreme Court and the president and
prime minister’s residences are housed in Jerusalem, and U.S. Presidents
and Secretaries of State meet their Israeli counterparts there.
Yet official U.S. policy is that both Israel and the Palestinians must agree
on the future status of Jerusalem, since the Palestinians claim the city as
their capital too. President Trump isn’t taking sides on that issue. The
White House proclamation acknowledges that “Jerusalem is a highly-sensitive
issue” and doesn’t distinguish between West Jerusalem, which houses
Israel’s government, and East Jerusalem, which Israel has administered
since the 1967 Six Day War.
Mr. Trump combined his Embassy move with renewed intent to broker an Israeli
-Palestinian peace deal, and he doesn’t rule out a Palestinian state as
part of the solution. Administration officials reiterated that intention
Wednesday, saying progress is being made behind the scenes. Color us
skeptical given the long history of failure, but the U.S. is trying.
One way the Palestinian Authority could signal a new seriousness would be to
stop paying the families of Palestinians who kill innocent Israelis. The
House passed the Taylor Force Act Tuesday, which would reduce U.S. aid to
the Palestinians until they renounce pay-for-slay payments. A Senate vote
may follow this month.
Arab leaders denounced the Embassy move, but we wonder how long the fury
will last. The Sunni Arabs also confront the threats of Islamic terrorism
and Iranian imperialism, and the Palestinians are a third order concern. If
the movement of an American Embassy that was signaled more than 20 years ago
is enough to scuttle peace talks, then maybe the basis for peace doesn’t
yet exist. |
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