Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says that US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is wrong in his assessment that moving the US Embassy to Jerusalem could harm the peace process.
US President Donald Trump had promised while campaigning to move the embassy to Jerusalem, but appeared in the months after being elected to retreat from that vow as Arab and Western officials warned a move could inflame tensions and spark fresh violence.
On Sunday, Tillerson said the Trump administration was evaluating whether relocating the US mission to Jerusalem would help or harm the peace process.
Speaking at his weekly Likud faction meeting in the Knesset, Netanyahu says, “Not only will moving the embassy not harm the peace process, it will advance it. It will correct a historical injustice and burst the Palestinian fantasy that Jerusalem is not the capital of Israel,” he tells Likud’s lawmakers.
“This is my position, it is clear to all. It hasn’t changed, and it won’t change.”
— Raoul Wootliff and Times of Israel staff
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