Donald Trump Jerusalem

• Mike Pence lands in Israel on visit overshadowed by Donald Trump’s Jerusalem declaration

  Mike Pence began a visit to Israel on Sunday after being praised as a "great friend" by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and shunned by the Palestinians.

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  Jan 21, 2018
  
• ‘That’s no’: Donald Trump denies relocating U.S. embassy to Jerusalem within a year

  Donald Trump denied that the planned relocation of the U.S. embassy in Israel to Jerusalem would take place within a year, after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he expected it would.

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  Jan 18, 2018
  
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• Donald Trump issues threat to stop Palestinian aid on Twitter

  Donald Trump threatened to pull U.S. aid to Palestine because of a lack of “appreciation or respect” in a tweet on Tuesday.

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  Jan 2, 2018
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• New Israel law would make it harder to divide Jerusalem

  The law also permits the government to remove outlying Palestinian neighbourhoods from the city, a move promoted by hard-liners to preserve Jerusalem's Jewish majority.

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  Jan 2, 2018
• Donald Trump accused of blackmail, bullying over threat to cut aid ahead of UN Jerusalem vote

  Trump went a step further than U.S. Ambassador Nikki Haley who hinted in a tweet and a letter to most of the 193 U.N. member states on Tuesday that the U.S. would retaliate against countries that vote in favour of a General Assembly resolution calling on the president to rescind his decision.

  Politics

  Dec 21, 2017
• ‘Let them vote against us’: Trump threatens to cut aid to UN members over Jerusalem vote

  Trump threatened to cut off financial aid to countries that vote in favor of a draft United Nations resolution against his decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.

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  Dec 20, 2017
• Nikki Haley calls UN resolution against Trump’s Jerusalem decision an ‘insult’

  The United States on Monday vetoed a resolution supported by the 14 other U.N. Security Council members that would have required President Donald Trump to rescind his declaration of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel

  World

  Dec 18, 2017
• Turkey wants to open embassy in East Jerusalem: Tayyip Erdogan

  It was not clear how Tayyip Erdogan would carry out the move, as Israel controls all of Jerusalem and calls the city its indivisible capital.

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  Dec 17, 2017
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• UN Security Council considers call for U.S. Jerusalem decision to be withdrawn

  A resolution needs nine votes in favor and no vetoes by the United States, France, Britain, Russia or China to be adopted.

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  Dec 16, 2017
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• There may be violence in Jerusalem, but some Middle East analysts see a new path to peace

  One week after U.S. President Donald Trump proclaimed Jerusalem the capital of Israel, leaders from 57 Muslim countries have called on the world to recognize East Jerusalem as the “occupied capital” of Palestine.

  Politics

  Dec 13, 2017