US won’t move embassy to Jerusalem for now
washington — United States President Donald Trump said on Saturday he will not go ahead with his controversial pledge to move the American embassy to occupied Jerusalem until after pushing for an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal.
“I wanna give that a shot before I even think about moving the embassy to Jerusalem,” Trump said on former governor Mike Huckabee’s TV show, referring to efforts to forge a peace between the two sides that has eluded career diplomats for decades.
“We’re gonna make a decision in the not-too-distant future,” Trump said, but for now, the peace push comes first. That push is one of the various portfolios the United States president gave his son-in-law Jared Kushner, a 36-yearold with no prior government experience who became one of the most powerful men in Washington by virtue of his family connection to the president.
Foreign countries currently have their embassies in the Israeli commercial capital Tel Aviv since they do not recognise Israel’s unilateral claim of control over all of Jerusalem. —
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