Israel ‘will be eternally grateful for President Trump’s bold decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and to move the embassy there,’ declared Netanyahu.
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The Muslim “keymaster” of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem’s Old City announced that he will not welcome US Vice President Mike Pence, while church officials have given no credence to the impromptu boycott.
“I promise you that the day will come when President Donald Trump moves the American Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem,” Pence said. “It is not a question of if; it is only when.”
What the Palestinians understood from Trump’s decision to delay moving the US embassy to Jerusalem is that the US president folds under pressure and threats.
Netanyahu stated that moving the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem would advance peace between Israel and the Palestinians, and not harm the process.
‘Under President Donald Trump, if the world knows nothing else, the world will know this — America stands with Israel,’ US Vice President Mike Pence declared.
‘Knowing the President as a man of his word,’ Congressman DeSantis thinks Trump will carry through with his pledge to move the US embassy to Israel’s capital.
Trump’s nominee for secretary of defense maintains that the capital of Israel is Tel Aviv, not Jerusalem – despite statements to the contrary by the president-elect.
U.S. Rep. Scott Garrett (R-N.J.), who recently led a bipartisan Congressional delegation on a fact-finding mission to Israel, said each of the last two presidential administrations have taken the “wrong view” by refusing to move America’s Israeli embassy to the capital of Jerusalem.