Trump may travel to Jerusalem in May for opening of US Embassy to Israel
Washington sources reported that Trump did not specify whether he would travel to Jerusalem in May or sooner, given that his administration's intention is to send just a small delegation from the US diplomatic mission comprised of the ambassador and a few advisers to the Jerusalem ceremony, while the new embassy itself is under construction.
The President said, however, that the new embassy will be built very quickly. Meanwhile in addition, Trump expressed optimism regarding the future of his efforts to bring about peace between the Israelis and Palestinians, despite the fact that his decision to transfer the US Embassy to Jerusalem from Tel Aviv spurred the Palestinians to assert that the US president could not be a mediator in that process.
Furthermore Netanyahu thanked Trump for the
"historic" recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital and compared
the move to for instance the 1917 Balfour Declaration in which the then-British
foreign secretary promised the Jews a homeland in the Middle East. Moreover the
Israeli leader also emphadata-sized the two nations' mutual concern about Iran's
activities in the region, saying that Tehran "must be stopped."