Washington – Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer renewed his call for President Donald Trump to move the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem after the president said he wanted to wait to give his relaunched peace push a chance.
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“President Trump’s recent comments suggest his indecisiveness on the embassy’s relocation,” Schumer, D-N.Y., said Tuesday in an email to JTA. “As someone who strongly believes that Jerusalem is the undivided capital of Israel, I am calling for the U.S. Embassy in Israel to be relocated to Jerusalem. Moving the embassy as soon as possible would appropriately commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of Jerusalem’s reunification and show the world that the U.S. definitively acknowledges Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.”
Trump in an interview last week with ormer Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee, aid the time was not ripe to move the embassy.
“I want to give that a shot before I even think about moving the embassy to Jerusalem,” Trump said, referring to his efforts to revive Israeli-Palestinian peace talks.
Trump had promised while campaigning to move the embassy, but in June he waived a 1995 law mandating the movie, as every president has done before him.
The Zionist Organization of America also decried Trump’s walk-back from his campaign pledge.
“While the ZOA understands that President Trump has not yet made a final decision on the embassy move, the deferral of a decision to move the embassy in accordance with his pre-election pledges – pledges which were repeated by his spokesmen Jason Greenblatt and current Ambassador to Israel David Friedman just before the election and also by spokesman Kellyanne Conway after his election – sends a message of weakness, and a message that the U.S. fears Palestinian violent reaction,” ZOA’s president, Morton Klein, said in a statement Monday.
Where was chuck the schm k when the Obamanation was president
I don’t remeber chucky cheese calling out the Obamanation when after peres funeral the Obamanation administration issued a press release that the Obamanation was in Jerusalem Israel then issued a correction where Israel was literally crossed out
Chucky wants the embassy moved just as Obama wanted it moved, it’s just a good chance to put Trump in a spot. He is so full of hot air. He never asked Obama to move it.
What phonies these demo-rats are! He was completely mum when Obama and every demo rat president didn’t move the embassy! But now to try to make Trump look bad, all of a sudden Schumer wants the embassy moved!
What a contrarian. He couldn’t see right from wrong If he were staring at it.
Usually Senator Schumer gets his name in the paper on Monday. I suppose the holidays shifted that around.
If Trump says left he says right. Since when did he concern himself with the embassy issue? Go cry Chuckie and leave the embassy where it is. You never gave a hoot where its located? who woke u up? The disease in you called hating Trump? The last person to voice his opinion on it.
schumer is such as faker. He is the leader of fake news. Everything he does is a fake show
Very simple. low cost move.
Simply said, h signs.
Tell Aciv Embassy sign will be switched with the Jerusalem, consulate sign