Trump Moves To Keep US Embassy In Tel Aviv For Now

President Donald Trump talks to reporters before a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Monday, May 22, 2017, in Jerusalem. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has temporarily waived a law requiring the U.S. to move its embassy in Israel to Jerusalem.

Trump’s move to renew the waiver for six months keeps the U.S. embassy in Tel Aviv for now. Trump has said he’s reviewing whether to fulfill his campaign promise to move it to Jerusalem.

Trump was facing a Thursday deadline to renew the waiver or see the State Department lose half its funding for its overseas facilities. Presidents of both parties have renewed the waiver every six months for years.

Israel considers Jerusalem its capital, but the Palestinians claim east Jerusalem for the capital of a future state.

The U.S. says its policy on Jerusalem hasn’t changed and that Jerusalem’s status must be negotiated between Israelis and Palestinians.

 

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  1. President Donald Trump has temporarily waived a law

    “It’s good to be king.”
    — Bibi Netanyahu

  2. But wasn’t he supposed move the embassy on day 1? Like defeating ISIS, and building a wall, and renegotiating all our trade deals, and…

  3. BY ALEXANDER FULBRIGHT January 19, 2017, 10:16 am

    U.S. President-elect Donald Trump told the Israel Hayom Hebrew-language daily that he intends to go through with his pledge to move the US Embassy to Jerusalem, saying that “clearly I did not forget” the promise made on the campaign trail.

    Asked by the paper Tuesday night at the Chairman’s Global Dinner in Washington, DC — an exclusive black tie event for diplomats and members of the incoming administration — if “you have not forgotten your promise concerning the embassy in Jerusalem,” Trump responded that “of course I remember what I said about Jerusalem.”

    “You know that I am not a person who breaks promises,” the president-elect added in comments published in Hebrew by the paper on Thursday morning.

    
    Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump spoke to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) on Monday evening, March 21, 2016, at its annual conference in Washington, DC.
    
    "We will move the American embassy to the eternal capital of the Jewish people, Jerusalem."
    
    http://www.timesofisrael.com/donald-trumps-full-speech-to-aipac/
    
    

    Trump could tell his goddamned followers 2+2=5 and they’d be down at the schoolhouse the next day bitching at the teachers about feeding their children lies.

  4. His bow to the royal house of Saud is ongoing.

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