Trump, Henry I and Dominoes: third parties in bilateral diplomacy
This week Donald Trump, the giver of diplomatic faux-pas who won’t stop giving (despite the rest of world literally begging him to stop), recognised Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and promised to move the US embassy to the city from Tel Aviv. Whilst there has been much speculation over Trump’s 'foreign policy’ (read in a sarcastic voice), one of the upshots of this action is clear: improved relations with Israel. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu claims Trump has been ‘courageous and just’ and ‘inscribed himself in the annals of our capital for all time’. Move over big guy, there's a new man in town ... Netanyahu’s response to this bilateral action is to be expected. By moving the US embassy to Jerusalem Trump is recognising Israel’s controversial annexation of East Jerusalem during the Six Day War (Evidence of modern people’s declining attention spans. In the medieval period people used to pay attention long enough to keep wars going for a hundred years