There will be violence.

It’ll embolden Israel’s numerous right-wing hawks to expand their programs to depopulate Palestinian neighborhoods and restructure them as Israeli.

It’ll lead to more brazen settlement expansion, including the controversial Jerusalem settlement projects that effectively cut the southern West Bank of Palestine off from the North.

It’ll make it even more difficult for Palestinians to enter Jerusalem, let alone live and work in it, as Israel will inevitably capitalize on this declaration to further erase Palestinian identity, culture, and history from the city.

It’ll allow the Israeli Ministry of Education to prohibit Palestinian curriculum (which it has been trying to do already) and replace it with Israeli curriculum that entirely erases the history of the Palestinian people, instead referring to us as invaders and uneducated hicks.

It’ll further deepen Palestinian hatred of Fatah and lead to a direct and sharp rise in support for Hamas. Palestinians have been fed up with Abbas and Fatah for years, but this move cements the weakness and infectivity of Abbas, while more people will abandon the idea of diplomatic resolutions and instead support armed resistance against the Israeli occupiers.

It will embolden Israeli settlers, who already carry out numerous incredibly underreported terror attacks against Palestinians, usually with the backing of the IDF.

The only few benefits to this move are that people can finally drop this charade that the US is some impartial mediator in all of this and see the US for what it is - Israel’s puppet, and that hopefully we can finally get rid of Abbas and Fatah as Palestinian leadership. I want to say that I’m even hopeful that this will rekindle support of the Palestinian cause throughout some of the Arab world… But I’m not so sure about that.

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