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In reply to the discussion: Trump 'to announce US embassy will move from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem on Monday' [View all]Hortensis
(58,785 posts)Likely very gladly, as you say, in spite of being a fundamentalist Christian himself, perhaps the first time with a little shudder at the thought.
I didn't remember this until Trump decided to turn Jerusalem into a yoooge trumpster fire and someone pointed it out, but in 1995 the Christian right got a law passed to move the embassy to Jerusalem, no later than early 1999, but presidents were allowed to delay the move for 6 months if there were security issues. Of course, there always were "security issues" to this militant Christian wet dream, so they've been delaying this mandated move in 6-month bumps for over 17 years.
Does anyone know who put this particular bee in Trump's ear? Perhaps it would be appropriate to become sick from worry now that Trump might be doing this to provoke an excuse to use nukes over there--instead of waiting to suddenly learn we've murdered entire cities and will become an international pariah.