Posted on 01/20/2018 7:36:36 AM PST by Olog-hai
The Trump administration is expected to approve a plan to move the U.S. embassy in Israel to Jerusalem as early as next year, rather than waiting for several years, Trump administration officials said Friday.
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has been considering several options since President Donald Trump, late last year, declared Jerusalem to be Israel’s capital and announced the United States would finally move its embassy there from Tel Aviv. Tillerson has said previously that building a new facility that satisfies the significant security requirements is a complex process involving site-selection, permitting and construction. He’s said that process is starting immediately, but will take at least three years.
Yet a temporary plan that has been presented to Tillerson would see an existing U.S. consular building in West Jerusalem designated as the interim embassy until the new one is built, three U.S. officials said. The officials weren’t authorized to discuss the situation by name and demanded anonymity. …
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I know a good site. There’s a Trumpy-looking dome sitting on it just now, though I understand that is the original site of the first permanent house of worship to the True God,so it would have to be shifted a bit to make it work.
It better be well fortified and protected. The Paliscum will be targeting it.
Trump wants things done NOW!
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Where are they going to put the Consulate? It was our original Embassy. Back when there were no such places as East Jerusalem and West Jerusalem.
“Where are they going to put the Consulate?”
It was previously (but unofficially) reported that the previously existing, and recently upgraded Consulate about two miles South of the Old City would be the site for the new Embassy. The US bought the adjoining old folks home, and they have ample space to expand/fortify.
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