Israel – Jerusalem Mayor: U.S. Embassy Move Can Be Done In ‘Two Minutes’

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    FILE - Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat speaks during a news conference in Jerusalem February 23, 2015. REUTERSIsrael – Israel’s mayor of Jerusalem Nir Barkat said on Tuesday that moving the U.S. Embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to the holy city can take “two minutes”.

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    Senior U.S. officials have said President Donald Trump is likely on Wednesday to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital while delaying relocating the embassy from Tel Aviv for another six months, though he is expected to order his aides to begin planning such a move immediately.

    The officials said, however, that no final decisions have been made as an outcry grew across the Middle East and among world powers against any unilateral U.S. decision on Jerusalem.

    Barkat said the United States would only have to convert one of its existing assets in the city, such as its consulate located in West Jerusalem.

    “They just take the symbol of the consulate and switch it to the embassy symbol – two American Marines can do it in two minutes, and give the ambassador David Friedman a space to sit in,” Barkat told Israel Radio.

    “The implementation of this decision is immediate and then later slowly start moving the employees in a more structured manner to begin providing services in Jerusalem,” Barkat said.

    The status of Jerusalem is one of the major stumbling blocks in decades of on-and-off Israeli-Palestinian peace talks.

    The Palestinians want East Jerusalem as the capital of their future state. Israel considers all of the city its indivisible, eternal capital. Jerusalem is home to sites holy to Islam, Judaism and Christianity

    Israel captured Arab East Jerusalem during the 1967 Middle East War and later annexed it, a move not recognized internationally.

    U.S. endorsement of Israel’s claim to all of Jerusalem as its capital would break with decades of U.S. policy that the city’s status must be decided in negotiations with the Palestinians.


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    6 years ago

    And kill thousands in 2 seconds! Hash m yeracheim!!!

    6 years ago

    And Wldve been the senseless act of all mankind

    PaulinSaudi
    PaulinSaudi
    6 years ago

    Why would you want to spend two minutes doing something will do nothing good?

    savtat
    savtat
    6 years ago

    Barkat is a pretty smart guy. He has held all the varied citizens of Yerushalayim together for quite some time. If he is in favor of this move, I think we can trust that he knows what he is doing.