President Donald Trump’s fulfillment of his campaign promise to recognise Jerusalem as Israel’s capital underlines the urgency of a new U.S.-led Middle East peace plan, Britain’s Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson warned.
President Donald Trump will announce Wednesday that the United States recognizes Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, and that the State Department will begin a process to move the U.S. embassy in Israel to Jerusalem.
Leaders of France and the European Union have joined with Jordan, Egypt, Turkey and the Arab League in expressing their opposition to reported plans of President Donald Trump to move the U.S. Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem.
On Tuesday, Dec. 5, at 12:00 a.m., the deadline expired for President Donald Trump to sign another six-month waiver deferring the relocation of the U.S. embassy in Israel to Jerusalem — and the waiver had not been signed.
President Trump has a unique opportunity to turn that mourning into the joy of celebration when he, too, arrives in Israel. He can, at a unique moment in history, move the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem and confirm its permanence as Israel’s capital.
Trump can make an immediate contribution to peace by moving forward with his plans to move the U.S. embassy to Israel’s capital, Jerusalem, on Day One of his presidency.
