Trump's Jerusalem al-Quds move 'deliberate provocation': Analyst
US President Donald Trump’s decision to recognize Jerusalem al-Quds as Israel's capital is “a deliberate and conscious provocation,” and that the two-state solution for Israelis and the people of Palestine is “nothing but a trap,” according to American author Ralph Schoenman.
In a speech at the White House on December 6, Trump officially declared Jerusalem al-Quds as Israel's capital, saying his administration would also begin a process of moving the American embassy in Tel Aviv to the holy city, which is expected to take years.
The announcement was a major shift by Washington that overturns decades of US foreign policy. Trump's decision was mostly aimed at pleasing his main supporters - Republican conservatives and evangelical Christian Zionists who comprise an important share of his voter base.
Washington’s controversial policy move triggered demonstrations in the occupied Palestinian territories, Iran, Turkey, Pakistan, Egypt, Jordan, Tunisia, Algeria, Iraq, Morocco and other Muslim countries.
“The decision on the part of Trump to declare that Jerusalem [al-Quds] is the capital of Israel and the US embassy will be transferred there is a deliberate and conscious provocation. The function of which is to effectively eradicate any prospect, possibility or illusion of the idea that the Palestinian people have any entitlement to their capital, let alone their country,” Schoenman, former personal secretary of British philosopher Bertrand Russell, told Press TV on Monday.
“It’s accompanied by widespeared Israeli repression in areas of Bethlehem, in East Jerusalem [al-Quds] and uprising in the Arab youth and Palestinians,” he stated.
The analyst said Trump is trying to “eliminate the illusion that there could be so-called two-state solution for Palestine because the two-state solution in the hand of Zionists and in the hands of the imperialists is nothing but a trap, a means by which the Palestinian cause will be eradicated as the population is relentlessly expelled,” he noted.
The author of The Hidden History of Zionism said that the Zionists want to turn Palestine into a large “prison camp.”
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