Trump Will Not Move US Embassy to Al-Quds ’For Now’
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US President Donald Trump signed a waiver allowing him to delay any decision on moving the US embassy in the ‘Israeli'-occupied entity from Tel Aviv to occupied al-Quds/Jerusalem - but his administration has said the move will go ahead.
A statement issued by the White House on Thursday, however, said that the president still intends to relocate the US' diplomatic seat in the country, and that the move was a question of "when not if".
The controversial election campaign promise was condemned by most of the international community, as well as Palestinians and liberal ‘Israeli' circles, which view the Zionist annexation of the east side of the city as illegal.
While many senior ‘Israeli' politicians said they would welcome the fulfilment of Trump's promise after his election in November, the new administration has continually equivocated over whether the move will take place.
The relocation would upend decades of US policy by granting what would have been seen as de facto US recognition of ‘Israel's' claim to all of al-Quds as its capital.
Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team
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