Commenting Donald Trump in ‘beginning stages’ of discussing plan to relocate US Israeli embassy to Jerusalem, White House confirms

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The site of the US embassy is partly on the side of occupied East Jerusalem and US is not planning to recognize Palestine and East Jerusalem as its capital, nor West Jerusalem as Israel's capital, but whole of Jerusalem solely as Israel's capital with the embassy sealing that recognition.

At the same time Israel is literally daily destroying Palestinian homes and businesses in the occupied East Jerusalem, where 82 % of over 300 000 Palestinians live in poverty and 35 % have no running water, while Israel gives local schools (which it claims to be just any schools in Israel itself) less than 20 % of the funding that West Jerusalem schools of equal size get.

There's a lack of 1000 school rooms - to which Israel responds by trying to close down privately operating schools. About 40 % of Palestinian children in occupied East Jerusalem never finish schooling.

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East Jerusalem has Islam's third holiest site, the Al-Aqsa mosque compound. Each US president starting from Bill Clinton has tried to hand it to Israel, because pleasing Israel and Israel Lobby is more important to US than putting the Islamic world aflame.

Israel has been destroying historic buildings going back to the Mamluk period (1250-1516) from the area around al-Aqsa mosque compound, has closed a Muslim graveyard just outside it from burials and is planning to turn it into a park - not the first Muslim graveyard to suffer this fate in Jerusalem under Israel's rule.

There are several ongoing synagogue projects Israel is pushing in occupied East Jerusalem, one of which would be a six-story mega-synagogue crowned with a high dome at the heart of East Jerusalem's Old City.

Symbolic signs of Israel's rule and intended to make the area around al-Aqsa mosque compound Jewish. The ban on Muslim call to prayer is part of the eradication of the existing nature of East Jerusalem's Old City.

Knesset plans to 'divide' the al-Aqsa mosque itself between Jews and Muslims before a full Israeli takeover of the compound area, which would see a new Jewish Temple to be built beside existing buildings or replacing them.

Like in Hebron's Ibrahimi mosque, increasing numbers of Jews visit the al-Aqsa mosque compound under Israeli occupation guard; some 12 000 last year. At the same time Israel tries to limit Muslim access, on some days allowing only those over 50, on some those over 60.

Occupied Hebron's Ibrahimi mosque - site of the 1994 massacre of 29 people by American Baruch Goldstein - Israel now often keeps closed for Muslims on several days of the week while allowing access to its illegal settlers; Palestinians are regularly killed around it - creating a zone of fear, possibly deliberately.

Ibrahimi mosque can be seen as Israel's 'dry run' for al-Aqsa mosque compound, while US politicians and pundits tell each other that nobody will care or notice if Israel takes al-Aqsa mosque compound over and closes to it to Muslims while making it a site for Jewish worship.

I'm sure those who aren't hasbara trolls understand how far away that expectation is from the reality of what would ensue.