US President Donald Trump on Wednesday announced his decision to move the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem after Trump's contacts on Tuesday evening with Arab leaders and leaders, most notably President Mahmoud Abbas.
Trump told President Abbas, Jordan's King Abdullah II and Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi that he intends to move the US embassy to Jerusalem, which led to Arab and international reactions against the American position.
The decision to transfer the US embassy to Jerusalem was issued by the US Congress on November 8, 1995, and bore the name "Jerusalem Embassy Legislation 1995".
Since 1950, the State of Israel has declared Jerusalem its eternal capital and has made it the seat of all its ministerial and administrative institutions, including the President, the Parliament and the Supreme Court, and the "center of Jewish religion" , A sacred city for "members of other religions", in the words of the resolution.
"Jerusalem was a divided city, and Israeli citizens and religious settlers were barred from entering it from 1948 until 1967, when they were reunited after the Six-Day War," says the US legislation.
The legislation claims that "Israel worked to unify Jerusalem and made it possible for the people of all religions to reach all the holy places in the city without restrictions."
After the transfer of the embassy, with the approval of Congress, the House of Representatives and the Senate, respectively, in 1990 and 1992, stated that Jerusalem must remain a united and indivisible city, the Gaza-Jericho agreement first, the start of final status negotiations, and the letter of 93 members of the American Shura Council In March 1995, in which they demanded that US Secretary of State Warren Christopher plan to move the US Embassy to the Holy City.
"How can the United States take embassies in all the capitals of the world except Israel (our democratic friend and our strategic ally), to the extent that US legislation is defined?"
Legislators in the third clause of the legislation emphasized that the US policy is based on the recognition of Jerusalem as a united and indivisible city, and that Jerusalem must be recognized as the capital of the State of Israel. Accordingly, the United States Embassy must be in the capital of Israel.
The legislation stressed the allocation of 75 million dollars from the budget of "maintenance and construction abroad" to build the US Embassy in occupied Jerusalem, obliging administration officials to submit regular reports to the Shura and House of Representatives on developments related to the implementation of the "Embassy of Jerusalem Jerusalem 1995".
Despite the promulgation of the "Embassy Legislation" since 1995, Donald Trump's former presidents were postponing its application. Foreign policy in general was in line with the policy of the United Nations and other major powers, which do not consider Jerusalem as the capital of Israel nor recognize Israel's annexation of Arab East Jerusalem after its occupation in war In 1967, in the hope that the peace negotiations would succeed on the basis of a two-state solution.
In this context, the expert on Israeli affairs, Naji al-Bata, said that the transfer of the American Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem represents terrorism and contravening international laws and norms. He pointed out that international resolutions rejected all the occupation practices of Jerusalem according to Resolution 252, Recognition of any fait accompli of the occupation authorities in the Palestinian territories.
Al-Datta explained that the US decision is undermining the UN resolution 242, which stipulates Israel's withdrawal from the occupied territories and denies all peace initiatives to solve the Palestinian issue.
He added: "The decision will affect Israel's practices to swallow the city of Jerusalem, and thus have turned the peace negotiations into negotiations have no value," pointing out that this is a mockery and a provocation to the Arab and Islamic masses.
"Trump will take into account only one thing: fear for America's interests in the region, and that's what's going on," Trump said, likely to be Trump's decision to transfer the powers of the embassy to Jerusalem.
He pointed out that the Jewish lobby in America will press Trump to transfer the embassy, stressing that there is a difference in the attitudes of US administrations and security agencies and in any case the coming days were caught by sudden events.
If Trump moves the US embassy to Jerusalem, Jerusalem will mean recognition of Jerusalem as the united capital of Israel. This means to topple Resolution 181 of 1947 that states two states on the land as a Jewish state and a Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital.
For his part, says political analyst Ahmed Rafiq Awad, the transfer of the US embassy to Jerusalem means legitimization of the Israeli occupation, and encourage other parties to transfer their embassies and kill the settlement process and thus put an end to negotiations and end the idea of peace with the Israelis.
Awad added that following the US decision will end the Oslo agreement will not be any status to negotiate and end the idea of participation, settlement and peace, noting that the US decision represents the abolition of Palestinian rights in Jerusalem.
He pointed out that the American decision cancels all the international resolutions issued by the Security Council and the General Assembly and against all international resolutions, which represents a reap on everything that is Palestinian, stressing that the decision is dangerous at the legal, political and humanitarian level.
He pointed out that the region will witness a severe disturbance, increase Iranian influence and gain new legitimacy, and will push to interfere with US interests.