NRB Urges US Embassy Move to Jerusalem

At this point in President Obama’s presidency he traveled to Cairo and described the Israel-Palestine conflict as the second “major source of tension” between the USA and the Muslim world, after violent extremism.

“I still haven’t made a final decision about how my trip to the Western Wall will look”.

The interview may have sent a message of US procrastination on the relocation of the US Embassy to Jerusalem, the ancient core of Judaism and Jewish history, which inspired the early US Pilgrims and Founding Fathers.

Sheldon Adelson is anguished/angry, CNN reports.

Will the United States embassy move to Jerusalem? It was akin to “visiting the Vatican without the Pope”, Hier said.

The front of Yedioth Ahronoth’s weekend supplement, featuring Donald Trump’s head on a fidget spinner, May 19, 2017.

While Trump’s first overseas trip has been already dubbed “historic” for many reasons, including the choice and sequence of destinations, it might also represent the first official direct flight from Saudi Arabia to Israel.

The Western Wall, part of the retaining walls of the Second Temple compound, is the closest point of prayer for Jews to the site of the Temple itself and thus the Jewish people’s holiest place of prayer.

Trump’s security operation in Israel has been named “Operation Blue Shield”, and yesterday’s joint exercise focused on the various sites Trump will visit, aimed at reducing any potential risks to the high-level official and his entourage.

“A more experienced president would have rejected the idea, claiming scheduling difficulties”.

The Trump family will stay in the 140-square meter suite of Jerusalem’s King David Hotel, which offers panoramic views of the Old City for around $5,500 a night.

But as his Israel visit approaches, the State Department and other sources are giving the new commander-in-chief pushback over his plan, but Staver insists that delaying the move any longer will not only hurt Israel, but Trump’s support, as well.

Much the same argument could be made in the context of Japan and South Korea, both stalwart allies now living under the shadow of the North Korean threat, who are nevertheless deeply nervous about Trump’s ability to handle Kim Jong-un. The White House disputed the account. “His voters expected him to listen and I want to believe that he will fulfill the promise he made to his voters”.

Whatever Netanyahu’s challenges on the domestic front in Israel, nothing about the present United States political scene suggests he need fear the kind of sustained, coordinated, and ever-so-slightly pro-Palestinian pressure that would be needed to truly back him and his coalition into a corner on signing a deal.

“Trump is not normal, that’s what we know”, says Arjay. The paper cautions against accepting claims in a series of recent newspaper ads from Iceland-based WOW air promoting a flight from Ben Gurion International Airport in Tel Aviv to NY on WOW air. They said it would lead to endless unrest in the Middle East. “These mornings have become a challenge, and that’s before even talking about the workday”. The move has reportedly raised concern that Trump may be too unpredictable.

“And who would have imagined a U.S. President coming to Israel during his first few months in office and going to the Kotel, which no President has ever done in office”.

To get there, the president’s convoy will have to pass through Israel’s high-security checkpoint and towering concrete barriers that cut the West Bank off from Jerusalem. Quoting heavily from the shooter, who recounts that “they had murder in their eyes”, the paper plainly takes his side, as does Yedioth Ahronoth (headline “I felt like they wanted to slaughter me”). It is mentioned more than 850 times in the Bible, yet not even once in the Koran.

On Tuesday, the White House announced that Trump would not be accompanied by any Israeli officials when he visits the holy site next Tuesday.

“Ostensibly, the rift is between the hawkish wing and the dovish wing”, she writes. “The paper quickly gets to the heart of the matter, saying that hesitance to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, because of ‘fear of Islamic backlash, ‘ is not policy ‘based on principle, fairness and historical right – but it is based exclusively on weakness and fear'”.