The main reason that led Trump to take this stupid step is that his presidential position became threatened after the discovery of the court on the issue of cooperation with Russia in the elections.
Which making him cooperate with the Jewish lobby and senators in Congres as so they protect him and cover on the court issue. And for that they extorted Trump in order to exchange protection with
his declaration Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. Did you get that ?
When Trump tweeted on Twitter a few days ago with a hostile tweet
against the Muslims, it was just a prelude to the public before making the decision.
Trump the hypocrite !!
Trump has forgotten his famous saying "America First"
and remembered "Trump First" instead !!
Jerusalem is the capital of Palestine yesterday, today and tomorrow
Nice Theory, Zaffron! Maybe you are right. But for sure it is not the only reson for this bucket of oil being thrown into the already crackling fire. In the background we have ISIS-defeated in Syria, and a growing shiite Iran (influence wise).
Israel's ISIS has failed, and there is a chance for peace. Turkey is wavering towards Russia and Iran, as the next battle was lost after the Irak invasion. In order to keep the war going on and the tensions up, another stirup was needed, hopefully to set the whole region on fire (irony). Anyway it is very dangerous and could escalate into WW3.