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US President Donald Trump delays moving the US embassy to Jerusalem to maximize peace chances

US President Donald Trump signed a waiver that officially delays a congressional mandate to move of the US Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. The White House issued a statement saying that the president had made this decision in order to maximize the chances of reaching a deal between Israel and the Palestinians, and added that the president had repeatedly stated his intention to move the embassy, and “the question is not if that move happens, but only when.” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Office in Jerusalem issued a statement in response saying, “Though Israel is disappointed that the embassy will not move at this time, we appreciate today’s expression of President Trump’s friendship to Israel and his commitment to moving the embassy in the future.”
The statement emphasized, however, that “Maintaining embassies outside the capital of Israel drives peace further away by helping keep alive the Palestinian fantasy that the Jewish people and the Jewish state have no connection to Jerusalem.” Netanyahu’s coalition partner, Jewish Home Chairman Naftali Bennett, took a firmer tone toward the decision by President Trump, warning that “the delay in moving the embassy actually makes it more difficult to achieve real peace, since it builds a false expectation among the Palestinians that Jerusalem will be partitioned, which is something that will never happen.” 
Minister Bennett further declared that “Only full recognition of a unified Jerusalem under Israel’s sovereignty will put an end to the illusions and will pave the way for real peace with our neighbors.” This is the second time in which President Trump signed a postponing order for the Jerusalem Embassy Act, an American law that was passed in 1995 by the 104th Congress for the purpose of initiating and funding the relocation of the US embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.