May 23, 2017
Dear Mr. President,
So you're in Israel...good for you. I've always wanted to go there myself. You have been boasting quite a bit (going all
the way back to your time on the campaign trail in 2016) about brokering a
peace deal between Israel and Palestine but much like health care reform, I
don't think you fully understand the immensity of that proposal. Remember when your first health care plan
failed and you said, "Nobody knew that health care could be so
complicated." when actually everyone
knew. Like seriously, everyone. This peace deal is basically the same thing;
it's only you who underestimates the complexity of it. But if you want to take it on, well more
power to you and good luck.
But here's what's really bothering me today - the
possibility that you might move the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.
There is a 50 year history of why this is a bad idea but here are my top two: while Israel claims Jerusalem as
their state capital, Palestine also
claims Jerusalem as the capital of their future Palestinian state, and Iraqi
Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr has posted on his website that moving the US
embassy in Israel to Jerusalem would be a "declaration of war"
against Islam. So that's quite a threat. I think we would all like to avoid that one.
I've got to get to work now, but you should do a Google
search about this because this is huge and I would hate to see your ignorance destroy the fragile co-existence that currently exists in the Middle East.
Sincerely,
Amy Beaton
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