Trump focusing on fostering peace, does not want to upset Palestinians
President Donald Trump has decided not to immediately move the U.S. embassy in Israel to Jerusalem, according to an announcement by the White House that is sure to rile the administration's pro-Israel supporters, who were counting on Trump to uphold one of his most oft-repeated campaign promises.
The White House announced early Thursday that Trump had signed a presidential waiver to keep the U.S. embassy in Tel Aviv for at least another six months. This waiver has been issued by every U.S. president since Congress passed a 1995 law mandating that the embassy be moved to Jerusalem, Israel's contested capital city.
Senior administration officials told the Washington Free Beacon that Trump remains "committed" to ultimately relocating the U.S. embassy, but has decided to hold off in the short term in order to appease the Palestinians—who also claim the ancient city as their own—and try to make progress in Middle East peace talks.
The announcement puts the administration in a tricky position, as Trump promised multiple times while campaigning for the presidency that he would immediately move the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem..
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5 comments:
Give President Trump time; he will.
Will never happen, only way to peace is kill off all the Palestine people.
1252
Are you stupid?
Killing people is the opposite of PEACE.
Peace means the absence of violence, not the encouragement of it.
3:24 Duh, don't we have Peace with the Germans, and the Japs? We killed lots of them, and now we have Peace. We even did this to the American Indians, now we have Peace.
"To achieve a Lasting Peace, it requires blood to be spilled" Winston Churchill. 1941
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