Senior Democrat comes about against Trump announcement

US Congressman Gerry Connolly, a senior member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, says Trump abandoned the US’s commitment to peace by declaring Jerusalem the capital of Israel.

“When President Jimmy Carter sat down at the negotiating table with Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin at Camp David in 1978, he reiterated that Jerusalem’s final status would not be decided unilaterally,” the Democratic lawmaker says in a statement.

“Every successive US administration since then has upheld that approach. With President Trump’s announcement today, he has abandoned that commitment and it is incumbent on his administration to explain to the world how this decision brings us closer to a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.”