Pres. Donald Trump Wednesday announced the U.S. would officially recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. He also directed the State Department to “begin preparation to move the American Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.” It’s a controversial move.
Houston Matters brings you the President’s speech along with analysis from local experts on politics and the Middle East.
Joining host Craig Cohen for the discussion are:
- Joe Barnes, a former official with the State Department, and the Bonner Means Baker Fellow at the Baker Institute for Public Policy at Rice University
- Rick Sindelar, an assistant professor at the University of St. Thomas’s Center for International Studies
- Jeremi Suri, the Mack Brown Distinguished Chair for Leadership in Global Affairs at UT-Austin’s Department of History, and the author of The Impossible Presidency: The Rise of and Fall of America’s Highest Office
- Andrew Schneider, News 88.7’s politics and government reporter