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White House confirms relocation of US Israel embassy to Jerusalem
Business Standard ^ | January 23, 2017 | ANI

Posted on 01/22/2017 11:40:14 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

In a highly controversial move, President of the United States Donald Trump will on Monday announce to move the US embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.

The White House has confirmed that Donald Trump's team is in the "beginning stages" of a plan to relocate US Israeli embassy to Jerusalem.

An Israeli news outlet earlier reported an anonymous source as saying the announcement on America's embassy moving from Tel Aviv would be made by a member of Trump administration on Monday.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is expected to speak with Trump by telephone on Sunday regarding the move.

The decision to relocate the US embassy to Jerusalem would represent a major break with US policy.

The Palestinians have said that an embassy move would kill any prospect for peace.

Sheikh Ekrema Sabri, imam of the al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem, has previously warned that relocating the embassy would be as good as a "declaration of war".

Donald Trump has said repeatedly that he intends to relocate the US embassy to Jerusalem, despite warnings the move would violate international law and destroy the peace process.


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Government; Israel; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: alaqsamosque; ekremasabri; israel; jerusalem; jerusalemembassy; palestinians; sheikhsabri; trump; usembassy
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To: grumpygresh

i retract my remark about France’s embassy
I am just frustrated with some of the news from France these days is all....it seems France’s leadership has sold France out to the IslamoNazi invasion....where is Charles Martel when he’s needed!?

Viva la France!


81 posted on 01/22/2017 2:42:37 PM PST by faithhopecharity ("Politicans are not born, they're excreted." -- Marcus Tillius Cicero)
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To: pastorbillrandles

Agreed


82 posted on 01/22/2017 3:24:53 PM PST by StoneWall Brigade
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
I hope the Embassy staff will have plenty of huge Marines guarding the compound...(and sufficient life insurance, also...oh, my).

Leni

83 posted on 01/22/2017 3:31:15 PM PST by MinuteGal
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To: 2ndDivisionVet; Fred Nerks

In a highly controversial move, President of the United States Donald Trump will on Monday announce to move the US embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. >>>>>>>>>

Your viewing of the dances of the Hassidim were quite in keeping with current events! LOL.

Masel Tov !


84 posted on 01/22/2017 4:14:13 PM PST by Candor7 ( Obama fascism article:(http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“Sheikh Ekrema Sabri, imam of the al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem, has previously warned that relocating the embassy would be as good as a “declaration of war”.”

A DECLARATION OF WAR......against the US? (no problem, may the bombing of Gaza begin within 24 hours)


85 posted on 01/22/2017 4:44:28 PM PST by Trump_vs_Evil_Witch (career libs @ BIG BROTHER Inc.,..... President Trump says your fired!)
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To: Candor7

But the men in the funny round hats believe they have to wait until the Messiah comes...before there can be a homeland for their people. Aren’t they waiting for that event before they lay the first foundation stone of the new Temple?
Meanwhile, I do so enjoy to see them dance and listen to their singing.


86 posted on 01/22/2017 10:13:48 PM PST by Fred Nerks (fair dinkum)
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To: Candor7

But the men in the funny round hats believe they have to wait until the Messiah comes...before there can be a homeland for their people. Aren’t they waiting for that event before they lay the first foundation stone of the new Temple?
Meanwhile, I do so enjoy to see them dance and listen to their singing.


87 posted on 01/22/2017 10:13:50 PM PST by Fred Nerks (fair dinkum)
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To: samtheman

Right. First you have to have “any prospect for peace” which the so-called Palestinians never honestly gave.

Time to get rid of the iman of the Al-Asqa mosque as a “first step to peace”.


88 posted on 01/22/2017 10:30:47 PM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: dp0622

The Palestinians have said that an embassy move would kill any prospect for peace

“Missed by that much” best Maxwell Smart voice


89 posted on 01/22/2017 11:40:52 PM PST by Nailbiter
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To: Rusty0604
From a search - the “International Law” was something the U.N. did back in 1980. Our response was:

With respect to the section of the draft resolution relating to the transfer of embassies from Jerusalem, the Secretary of State said that the resolution was “fundamentally flawed” and that the U.S. considered that the instruction that states remove their diplomatic missions from Jerusalem, “not binding” and “without force”, and that “we reject it as a disruptive attempt to dictate to other nations.”

And your Jerusalem Embassy Act of 1995 was to put our embassy back into Jerusalem. And now 20 years later (and 35 years after we “refused” the original U.N. rule), Trump will be doing it!

I'm a little concerned though - he seems to be moving awfully fast on this. /S

90 posted on 01/22/2017 11:50:35 PM PST by 21twelve (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2185147/posts FDR's New Deal = obama)
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To: Nailbiter

lol


91 posted on 01/23/2017 1:07:43 AM PST by dp0622 (The only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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To: dfwgator
Here Winston Churchill (grandson of the wartime PM) recalls a quote from Ariel Sharon summarizing the outcome of the Yom Kippur War:

In 1973, my intelligence was no better than that of the Israeli government and the Yom Kippur War found me westbound aboard the QE2, committed to a two-week lecture tour of the US. By the time I got back to Israel, general [Ariel] Sharon was on the west side of the Suez Canal with the Egyptian Third Army in his power. I sent him an urgent message asking him to call. An hour later I was still waiting when I had to leave to have dinner in a Palestinian fish restaurant in Jaffa with General Motti Hod, commander of the air force in ’67. I briefed the switchboard operators at the Tel Aviv Hilton to forward any call to the restaurant.

Halfway through dinner “mein host,” the Palestinian, called me to the phone. I went behind the bar and took the phone off the hook. A booming voice came on, causing me to hold the phone at arm’s length: ‘Winston, this is Arik!’ adding with overtones of Scipio Africanus ‘Arik from Africa! Winston, we have peace! A piece of Egypt, a piece of Lebanon, a piece of Syria and a piece of Jordan!’


92 posted on 01/23/2017 1:47:18 AM PST by cynwoody
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To: Fred Nerks

But the men in the funny round hats believe they have to wait until the Messiah comes...before there can be a homeland for their people.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

But as to their spiritual path, their bus continues to arrive and leave the station. From that point of view they do not want to change what now works.

The third temple movement is comprised of an interesting bunch outside of the They want to take back the Temple Mount and build now, without further delay.

http://www.templemountfaithful.org/

I believe President Trump wants that done, and so will authorize the US embassy to transfer its location from Tel Avib to Jerusalem this week, if rumors are true.

We are in for a wild ride, but a good one.Perhaps we will see more dancing than we might think.


93 posted on 01/23/2017 2:56:44 AM PST by Candor7 ( Obama fascism article:(http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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To: Right_in_Virginia
What qualifies Jared Kushner to head these negotiations? And why not our SOS?

Well, Jared Kushner is Jewish.

As for our Secretary of State, we currently don't have one for the Trump administration yet, thanks to the Democrats' stalling.

My question is: what is the impetus behind this move? I presume the Israeli Prime Minister (Netanyahu) approves?

94 posted on 01/23/2017 3:07:45 AM PST by sargon (LS sez: "The Uniparty Establishment has NO idea what's about to hit them!")
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To: Candor7
thanks for the link:

UNESCO Declares the Holy Temple Mount to Be Only an Islamic Site UNESCO, of the Anti-Israel U.N. Organization, Adopted an Absurd, Untrue, and Ridiculous Resolution That Declares the Holy Temple Mount to Be Only an Islamic Site. The Answer from the G-d and People of Israel to Unesco and the United Nations: "Soon Your Hateful and False Resolution to My People Israel Will Be Thrown into the Garbage Bin of History"

The entire United Nations needs to become a historical footnote imo.

95 posted on 01/23/2017 3:36:29 AM PST by Fred Nerks (fair dinkum)
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To: Fred Nerks

The entire United Nations needs to become a historical footnote imo.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3516143/posts

UNITED STATES: Bill to withdraw the US from the United Nations has been submitted to Congress as the ‘American Sovereignty Restoration Act’

Perhaps we will have Nikki Haley found a new organization such as the OAS used to be.


96 posted on 01/23/2017 3:59:10 AM PST by Candor7 ( Obama fascism article:(http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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Someone needs to tell the Mayor of Jerusalem that there is no such thing as radical Islam. Making it impossible to distinguish between radical and peaceful Islam. Thanks to Obama.

Also worth noting that the Embassy site, unless changed, has been in Israel since 1949. The statement so offending radicals that Israel isn't going to give up all of Jerusalem. Nothing to do with "East" Jerusalem, the territory taken in 1967. That was never a question. We've also had a consulatein "East" Jerusalem which, like the Hong Kong consulate conducts embassy services

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97 posted on 01/23/2017 7:35:30 AM PST by SJackson (The Pilgrims—Doing the jobs Native Americans wouldn’t do !)
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To: SJackson

In video praising Trump, Jerusalem mayor says Obama ‘surrendered’ to radical Islam

Obama didn’t surrender to Islam.

He was an operative for Islam.


98 posted on 01/23/2017 8:32:33 AM PST by mountn man (The Pleasure You Get From Life, Is Equal To The Attitude You Put Into It.)
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To: piasa
So, how many times has Ekrema Sabri and friends declared war on us already?

It's time we returned the favor...with ALL prejudice.

99 posted on 01/23/2017 8:34:32 AM PST by mountn man (The Pleasure You Get From Life, Is Equal To The Attitude You Put Into It.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I’m waiting for an EO that HALTS IMMEDIATELY ALL USA “Foreign Aid” to the PA and PLO!


100 posted on 01/23/2017 9:42:19 AM PST by Taxman ((H. L. Mencken correctly observed: Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man.))
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