Muslims See President Trump’s Actions On Jerusalem As ‘Declaration Of War’

President Trump is getting MAJOR backlash for acknowledging Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.

Some have gone so far as to call it a declaration of WAR against Muslims.

Palestinians in Bethlehem burn photos of President Donald Trump ahead of pending announcement to declare Jerusalem as capital of Israel and moving of US embassy. pic.twitter.com/J9HlOQvlMe

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According to this:

America’s friends and foes unleashed fierce criticism on Wednesday ahead of President Donald Trump’s announcement recognizing Jerusalem as Israel’s capital which is expected lunchtime Wednesday.

While Israel welcomed the news, Palestinian officials declared the Mideast peace process ‘finished’ and Turkey announced it would host a meeting of Islamic nations next week to give Muslim countries’ leaders an opportunity to coordinate a response.

In Gaza, U.S. and Israeli flags were burned and in the West bank Hamas declared Friday a ‘day of rage’, raising the specter of mass violence in the occupied territories.

The POPE has urged Trump to reconsider:

The Pope made a plea for Trump to rethink urgently and spoke out at his weekly general audience in Rome .

‘I make a heartfelt appeal so that all commit themselves to respecting the status quo of the city, in conformity with the pertinent resolutions of the United Nations,’ Pope Francis said.

The United Nations have made it ABUNDANTLY clear how they feel about Isreal, so their opinion of this isn’t my top priority, to be honest.

Theresa May has also expressed concern:

In the UK Prime Minister Theresa May said she would challenge the country’s closest ally.

‘I’m intending to speak to President Trump about this matter,’ May told MPs.

‘Our position has not changed, it has been a long standing one and it is also a very clear one.

‘It is that the status of Jerusalem should be determined in a negotiated settlement between the Israelis and the Palestinians, and Jerusalem should ultimately form a shared capital between the Israeli and Palestinian states.’

The harsh global reaction cast questions about the feasibility of a brewing U.S. peace plan that is expected to be presented by the White House in the near future.

And leaders of the Middle East… well, they’re calling it war.

Trump would effectively be making a declaration of war, the Palestinians’ chief representative to Britain said Wednesday.

‘If he says what he is intending to say about Jerusalem being the capital of Israel, it means a kiss of death to the two-state solution,’ Manuel Hassassian said in a BBC radio interview.

‘He is declaring war in the Middle East, he is declaring war against 1.5 billion Muslims [and] hundreds of millions of Christians that are not going to accept the holy shrines to be totally under the hegemony of Israel,’ Hassassian added.

Basically they’re all worked up because the Palestinians think Jerusalem should be THEIR capital:

The Palestinians seek east Jerusalem as the capital of a future independent state and fear that Trump’s declaration essentially imposes on them a disastrous solution for one of the core issues in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

‘There is no way that there can be talks with the Americans. The peace process is finished. They have already pre-empted the outcome,’ said Palestinian official Hanan Ashrawi. ‘They cannot take us for granted.’

The U.S. decision ‘destroys the peace process,’ added Palestinian Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah. Top Palestinian officials were meeting Wednesday to plot their course forward.

U.S. officials said late Tuesday that Trump will recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, despite intense Arab, Muslim and European opposition to a move that would upend decades of U.S. policy and risk potentially violent protests. Trump was expected to unveil his plan in a speech later Wednesday.

What peace process? It’s cute when Palestinians pretend like “peace” is something they’re remotely interested in. No, this is not America’s fault. Don’t be ridiculous.

One ally IS pleased with the move… and that’s Israel.

Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, said on Facebook that ‘Our historical national identity is receiving important expressions every day.’ He said he would comment further later in the day.

Other members of his Cabinet were more forthcoming. Education Minister Naftali Bennett, head of the nationalist Jewish Home party, praised what he called Trump’s ‘bold and yet natural’ move.

‘The sooner the Arab world recognizes Jerusalem as our capital, the sooner we will reach real peace. Real peace that is not predicated on an illusion that we are going to carve up Jerusalem and carve up Israel,’ Bennett told The Associated Press on the sidelines of the Jerusalem Post Diplomatic Conference.

I’m going to be honest….I THOUGHT I was torn on this at first…

While I will ALWAYS support Israel, I worry that this move is putting us Americans in danger. CERTAINLY lives will be lost. I also wonder if politically, this may get in the way of pressing issues here in our country.

HOWEVER, the more I really think about it….

The ONLY thing that will change is that the American embassy will move to Jerusalem. Muslim leaders are literally threatening LIVES over this. Should we kowtow to people like this? In the long run, will we be the nation that shuddered in fear of radical Islamic nations, or should we do what we know is right?

What do you think?