By Chris Akiri
On Tuesday, December 7, 2017, the
U.S. President, Donald J. Trump, declared Jerusalem
as the capital of Israel ,
promising to relocate the U.S. Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem . Following this declaration, there
was mass hysteria in the Arab world, condemning the declaration as a dead set
against the peace mediation process in the Israeli-Palestinian imbroglio and
against International Law. I dare say that a sizeable crop of the
anti-declaration protesters inveighs against the U.S.
recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel from the
angle of vision of religion and cheap, emotional sentiments.
From a remote period of antiquity,
except on those excruciating periods when it was conquered and occupied by more
powerful enemies, the City of Jerusalem, located in the Judean Hills of Israel
and appears 719 times in Bible verses, has been the capital of the United
Monarchy of Israel over which ruled countless Hebrew monarchs, including, but
not limited to, David and Solomon (1 Kings 1:37, 2 Samuel 8:11-21 and 1Kings
8:21).
*US President Donald Trump and Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu |