12-08-2017, 01:28 PM
The issue here is that the only viable option in the long-term will be a two-state solution. It has always been assumed that the capital for both of those states will be each state's respective parts of the city. By naming Jerusalem as Israel's capital now, it takes away any resemblance of neutrality that we hold as a mediating party in the conflicts regarding this issue. It harms our position, it makes our people in the middle east less safe, and it damages the entire peace process. The nitty gritty details of it all are vast and complicated, but that is what the situation is.
