US should reconsider its support for Israel
The fact that all member states of the United Nations Security Council except the United States supported the draft resolution rejecting President Donald Trump's decision to recognise Jerusalem as Israel's capital should serve as a stark warning to the US that its standing as a global leader is currently under threat. I was watching live on television when the president of the council was asking member states to vote on the resolution. What followed was an embarrassing scene.
It is very rare for the US to see itself fully cornered at the Security Council, whose current member states include many US allies.
The time has come for the US to reconsider whether it is worth being cornered like this for the sake of just one of its allies, that too, one which has so little moral standing in the community of nations. The country needs to see what other countries are already seeing. That recognising Jerusalem as Israel's capital does not serve the cause of peace whatsoever.
At best, it can only strengthen Donald Trump's political standing among a small group of evangelical Christians. The price for that is too steep, as evident by the rejection to receive the US Vice President Mike Pence by many Middle Eastern religious leaders.
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