Trump transition spokesman Jason Miller told reporters on Friday morning that the President-elect remains committed to moving the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem from its current location in Tel Aviv.
Miller’s comments came after Trump’s intended nominee as U.S. ambassador to Israel, attorney David Friedman, said in a statement that he looks forward to working from “the U.S. embassy in Israel’s eternal capital, Jerusalem.” Friedman’s remarks prompted questions about whether Trump would quickly act to move the embassy to Jerusalem from Tel Aviv, where it has remained through successive American administrations.
“This is a commitment that the President-elect made numerous times on the campaign trail and that he remains firmly committed to, and with Mr. Friedman joining the team obviously this is another like-minded individual who shares the same viewpoints,” Miller told reporters on a conference call.
He declined to provide further details on the timing, location and security considerations involved in moving the embassy to Jerusalem.
“I do not have at this time a schedule that I’m able to share about timing on that,” Miller said. “Since we just announced Mr. Friedman yesterday, we don’t have that yet, but as far as your other questions here and the other questions that we have here I’m sure will be answered in due time.”
An embassy move to Jerusalem, which holds sacred meaning for Israelis and Palestinians, would likely provoke backlash from Palestinians, and both Bill Clinton and George W. Bush made similar promises but backed away once elected.
Oh, this should help bring peace to the Middle East…
But I guess that’s not the point.
Has the Orange Menace figured out yet how he’s gonna “take that oil” out of Iraq? You know, the stuff that weak Obama left behind? I’m sure Team Exxon will get right on that.
Oh, let’s spend several hundreds of millions of dollars (more) so that we can appease a group of right-wing Israelis whom we’ve already appeased, and then some, and in the process inflame hatred of the US all through the region.
Brilliant!
It’s probably in Team Exxon’s interest to keep the Iraq oil in Iraq, as it just makes their holdings worth that much more. Maybe a war with Iran will do that trick, and keep Iran’s oil off market to boot.
So we’re going to take hundreds of millions that could have gone to improving embassy security and instead use it to build a new embassy in Jerusalem? Remember that when the next Benghazi happens.
Armageddon the feeling the next four years will be perilous.
Hey, a lot of people went to school to learn how to do that.