Donald Trump upends decades of US policy with a single announcement, but its long-term impact remains uncertain.
For decades United States presidential candidates from both parties have promised to move the US embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. But once elected they have retreated from the idea.
On Wednesday, Donald Trump changed that. He overruled his top political and military advisers to recognise Jerusalem as Israel's capital and announce plans to relocate the US embassy.
To give you a sense of how unusual that is: of all the countries that maintain formal diplomatic relations with Israel, not one currently has an embassy in Jerusalem.
And the few that have had embassies there in the past have been small countries with little connection to the Middle East, such as Costa Rica and El Salvador
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