This is surely the motto of the most powerful man in the world, the egregiously repugnant and dangerous Trump.

This ignorant, arrogant liar’s latest fit of madness is his labelling of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.

Jihadi zealots will seek vengeance for this, costing the lives of innocents.

Of course, the 50 million American evangelical WASPs (white, Anglo-Saxon protestant) have applauded the move, because the biblical “truth” is that God gave this “land of milk and honey” to the Israelites 3,000 years ago.  The facts of pre-history are not easy to establish. However, there is archaeological evidence, including accounts inscribed on ancient stelae unearthed in that part of the world, to the effect that the ancient Israelites were one of many bronze age to iron age tribes, semi-nomadic, early agriculturalists, all of whom were repeatedly warring with their neighbours. The Israelites were not the only ones to unite their disparate elements around a monotheistic religion. They wiped out the earlier inhabitants of Canaan (their god not finding the slaughter of men, women and children and the mutilation of corpses to be an anathema) and took over an area which has since variously been Palestine, part of Syria, part of the Roman empire, part of the Ottoman Empire and part of the British Empire held under mandate.  The population of the territory largely followed the Jewish religion from about 1,000 BCE, then was largely Christian, under the Romans, from the 4th century CE until the Arab conquest in the 7th century CE, becoming Muslim until the crusades started in the 11th century and, with the retreat of the Roman Catholic armies in the 13th century, again largely Muslim.

With the growth of Zionism in the 19th century, the Jewish component of the population began building up again and this trend accelerated with the Balfour Declaration, following the betrayal of the Arab tribes by T E Lawrence after the 1st World War.

Thus, to call Israel “the historical home of the Jews” is a considerable distortion of history. This bit of the Middle East has historically been home to many peoples and religions. To call Israel the only democracy in the Middle East is a gross distortion of reality. It is an apartheid state, persistently guilty of ethnic cleansing and in defiance of UN resolutions on an even greater scale than North Korea.

When Israel bombs Gaza it is acting as a proxy for Trump’s America.

Britain should counter Trump’s latest outrage by joining the other 136 UN member-nations which have recognised the State of Palestine.