Mideast uneasy as Trump reportedly decides to move US Embassy to Jerusalem
by Samir Zedan and Laura King, Los Angeles Times
Dec 05, 2017
3 minutes
BETHLEHEM, West Bank - Palestinian officials said Tuesday that President Donald Trump told Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas in a phone call that he planned to move the U.S. Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem, raising regional tensions over the timing and extent of U.S. moves regarding the fiercely contested city.
Trump has repeatedly pledged to take the highly symbolic step of relocating the embassy from Tel Aviv, which would be seen as
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