The Very Top Headline On Google Today

Here is the very top, #1 headline today when I opened Google News this morning at 6AM;

 

Trump plan to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital triggers warnings

 

U.S. allies and foes alike expressed dismay Wednesday over President Donald Trump’s expected move to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, with some warning it could potentially trigger violence.

 

The decision will “provoke Muslims and Christians alike," Jordan’s King Abdullah predicted, while Pope Francis urged the White House to reconsider.

Recognizing Jerusalem as Israel's capital would be an act of “madness” that would “plunge the region and the world into a fire with no end in sight," Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Bekir Bozdag said.

Trump is expected to make the announcement in a speech Wednesday, while delaying moving the U.S. Embassy from Tel Aviv. Officials told reporters that the president intends to fulfill his promise to relocate the embassy but that the process could take years.

Recognizing Jerusalem would upend decades of American policy. The United States has never endorsed Israel's claim of sovereignty over any part of Jerusalem.

Since the 1979 Camp David Accords, American presidents have refused to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel or move the U.S. Embassy. The U.S. approach has been that Jerusalem's status should be negotiated between the Israelis and Palestinians.

The Palestinians seek the city's eastern sector, captured by Israel in the 1967 Mideast war, as the capital of a future independent state. They 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," Palestinian official Hanan Ashrawi told The Associated Press. "They cannot take us for granted."

 

 

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/trump-plan-recognize-jerusalem-israel-s-capital-triggers-warnings-n826921

This headline goes on to say that Trump's announcement will 'rock the world'

White House Reveals: President Donald Trump will give speech on Jerusalem tomorrow – and it is expected to ROCK the world


https://www.jewsnews.co.il/2017/12/06/white-house-reveals-president-donald-trump-will-give-speech-on-jerusalem-tomorrow-and-it-is-expected-to-rock-the-world.html