[joesnuffy]

During the 2000 election campaign Bush pledged that if he was elected, he would "begin the process" of moving the embassy to Jerusalem on his "first day in office." After nearly four years, there is no evidence that he has begun that process.

Well if the plan is to give 1/2 of Jerusalem to the Philistines aka Palestinians...then if the US embassy (to Israel) is in Jerusalem it would have to be in the Israeli sector....with the Paly terrorists fsb so close...the US embassy would be an easier target for terror attacks (that are bound to come) in Jerusalem than further away in Tel Aviv

Of course we could save money by having our "new" Palestinan embassy and Israel embassy in the same town and same buiding...right on the border...that would be a nice 'peace' gesture sacrifice .. imo

[SJackson]

Well if the plan is to give 1/2 of Jerusalem to the Philistines aka Palestinians...then if the US embassy (to Israel) is in Jerusalem it would have to be in the Israeli sector....with the Paly terrorists fsb so close...the US embassy would be an easier target for terror attacks (that are bound to come) in Jerusalem than further away in Tel Aviv

Actually I think East Jerusalem is about a third, so yes, we could build an Embassy in the other 2/3, which is where we'd put it anyway. But that would "prejudge" negotiations, like saying 4 million Arabs aren't going to be allowed into Israel, so we can't do it, apparently.