Revista de Artes e Ciências Sociais

America’s Principled Realism and the Jerusalem Declaration: Implications on Israeli-Palestinian Two-State Solution

Abstract

Eke Onyemaechi Augustine

One of the vexed issues between Israel and Palestine in the Middle East region of escalating conflict and tension is claims and counter-claims on the status of Jerusalem between the defenders of Arab nationalism and Zionism. On 6 December 2018, United States President Donald Trump, leveraging on America’s “principled realism” in the new world order, made an epochal declaration on Jerusalem as Israel’s capital city. The declaration inflamed the war-cloud in the region; threw up protests and re-alignments between peoples, organisations and states based on perception of America’s national interest. The broad objective of the study is to examine the realities behind the declaration. The specific objective is to underscore the implication of the status of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital on Israeli-Palestinian two-State solution for global security. This study is anchored on realism