Small tremors in Jerusalem's ancient history

US President Trump's audacity in putting into effect the outdated US decision recognizing Jerusalem as the capital of Israel has, as expected, caused an uproar in the politics of the whole world, starting with the Islamic World.

We say "outdated decision" because, as we said before, this decision was in fact taken by the US in 1995, and although it has been among the campaign promises of every US president elected until now, each has postponed putting it into effect when it came to the crunch.

They were postponing because the presidents, who felt compelled to send warm messages to the Jewish lobbies in America in order to win elections, encountered the real balances of politics once in office and faced the reality that Jews in America do not have as much weight in the real world as they do in electoral processes. The world does not consist of Jews alone, nor of the images the Jews create by pulling the wool over the eyes of US politicians.

Merely seeing this difference was enough to prevent US presidents, at least, from committing this madness. Implementing this decision requires serious audacity, or it would serve a function as a bribe that had to be paid in order to get free of certain pressures one is under. And so it has turned out: Trump, whom the whole world has cursed for this audacious, provocative decision, has become the hero of the Zionists, neo-cons and Evangelicals in America.

Trump, who since the day he was elected has not managed to get a proper footing in American domestic politics, has never been able to enjoy his presidency, and has been unable to get out of trouble with his own State Department, CIA, Pentagon, FBI and Justice Department, with this gesture to the Zionist lobbies, which frighten everyone, has put all his problems with these institutions and actors in the shade at once. So from his own standpoint this move is not really so mad; on the contrary, it is like "a snake he clung to while falling into the sea."

There is of course no chance that the snake will save him. It will save him neither from the resistance he faces nor, in general, from the burden of guilt for plunging the world into a new atmosphere of high tension and conflict.

In fact, with its more conspicuous policy of recent times, the US has reminded everyone of its entire past record in the most striking way. The US has not been part of the solution to any problem in the world. It has always been the source of the problem. As the role it played in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria and Yemen passes before our eyes like a film strip, what we see in it is nothing other than an actor distinguished only by its intrigues and its presence of sedition and corruption. With a policy that always leaves great distances between what it says and what it does, it leaves an unshakable impression of its untrustworthiness.

It has once again been seen in the clearest way that the mediation it has carried out until now between Israel and Palestine for so-called peace negotiations on the Palestinian question in fact meant nothing other than stalling and deceiving one side in favor of the other.

This was in fact a secret known to everyone, yet for better or worse it could still sell the world this position of neutrality as a position of power. That it has made its position of being more Israeli than Israel so evident means that the US has in fact given up world leadership as well.

In this respect, perhaps it is stating the obvious, but the US is a major partner in the occupation in Palestine and in all the crimes committed during this occupation.

The US has come under the influence of an ideological-religious bigotry rather than reason, in a way wholly out of proportion to its power and physical size.

The cost of gaining itself an advantage at home can thus be the country's losing a great advantage in the world and falling into such a situation.

Is not the same thing, with a different balance of exchange, at issue for the Islamic world as well? What do the leaders of the Islamic countries, who today offer Israel their silence, their acquiescence and even their support as a bribe in order to protect their own positions, think they are getting in return for this heavy bribe they give?

The bribe they give is their honor, their dignity, their chastity, their integrity. The power they think they obtain in return never becomes, and never will become, their own power.

Unfortunately, the fact that the decision to implement what no president in the US, riding in the wake of Zionism, had dared to do until now could be taken at Trump's hands is related not only to the US's own internal dynamics and its own strategic resolve. What most emboldened Trump to take this step today, and what made it possible for this step to be taken, is none other than this state the Islamic world is in.

Even so, with such a violation of Jerusalem, of humanity's sacred, no one has a chance of getting off lightly. In Jerusalem's glorious, ancient history, these events and these developments amount to small tremors. However much importance those who cause these tremors attach to themselves, however much those who are subjected to them are affected, Jerusalem will reach where it is going and will also bear rightful witness to what everyone deserves.