This story originally appeared on “>promised to meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “immediately,” and “move the American embassy to the eternal capital of the Jewish people, Jerusalem.” In a “>interview with the BBC on Thursday, Trump’s senior foreign policy advisor, Walid Phares, indicated that Trump might not relocate the embassy immediately. “Many presidents of the United States have committed to do that and he said as well that he will do that but he will do it in consensus,” Phares said.
Phares later clarified his remarks. “Next administration to create consensus at home to move the embassy to Jerusalem,” he tweeted.
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