Chairman of the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Senator Bob Corker (R-TN) told Politico Global Podcast that President Trump at one point was “ready to move the embassy at 12:01 on January 20th. Maybe even at 12 and thirty seconds”. According to Corker, the relating of the US Embassy from Tel Aviv “was going to be their first move” but the new administration is now aware of the “Complexities that exist”.
The senator then explained that while moving the embassy may still occur, it will follow consultations with Arab nations first to obtain their approval. Corker added that last week’s visit to Washington by Jordan’s King Abdullah II had an influence on the administration, citing in his view, the Jordanian monarch is the “Henry Kissinger of that part of the world”. He adds the king has influence and the two-state solution is important to him.
Senator Corker adds that while the administration began realizing the complexities involved with moving the embassy prior to the meeting with King Abdullah, he succeeded in pointing out that the matter is far more complicated than Mr. Trump thought when making his announcement as a presidential candidate.
(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)
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President Trump indeed wanted to move it the moment he became president but the unelected radical left self-empowered High Court controlling Israel, adamantly refused the move.
a) I guess Pres Trump is not Mashiach as some fools may have thought
b) Better to pray and trust in G-d than a president of the US
c) If Jordan is a Henry Kissinger this KIssinger is pretty anti Jewish for forbidding any land sold to Jews and repeatedly endorsing UN resolutions and spomsoring that completely deny any Jewish connection to Jerusalem despite it so often mentioned in the Bible and centuries old global Jewish tradition and archaelogy and basic tolerance of other faiths that indeed came Before Islam many centuries before.
Quite certain it will not move. Emor harbeh vaasay ma’at.
What garbage Arye the chachomim wanted to prevent another uprising . Like it or not.
There are “complexities” but the Embassy still needs to be moved and if Jordan doesn’t cooperate Trump should cut off their US aid.
If the US made a point that it was moving the embassy to “west” Jerusalem (i.e. territory that has been Israeli since the 1949 armistice) it wouldn’t be a big deal. Also an American embassy in Jerusalem would probably be relatively small, since the economic center of Israel is in Tel Aviv so most of the major offices would stay where they were (in what would now be a consulate).
As I understand it, the most important activity conducted at any US embassy is intelligence gathering (which sounds so much nicer than “spying”). So moving the US embassy from Israel’s major commercial city to its major religious city may put substantial burdens on US intelligence gathering. This may be the principal reason why US presidents going back to 1967 have been happy to leave the embassy in Tel Aviv.
But what I like most about Trump’s leaving the US embassy in Tel Aviv is that it clearly demonstrates that he is a fake phony fraud.
Aryeh – Your “alternative facts” are as accurate and correct as Trumps daily nonsense.
Nice to see that Trump is actualy capable of comprehending that complexites exist and that in real life most issues are more complex than a simplistic twiitter posting.