Statement by Ambassador Haley on the President’s Historic Decision to Move the U.S. Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem

December 6, 2017

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

For twenty-two years, there has been an overwhelming bipartisan consensus in favor of moving the U.S. embassy in Israel to its rightful place in the Israeli capital city of Jerusalem. Today, the President took a courageous and historic step that was long overdue. Across the globe, America has its embassy in the capital city of the host country. Israel will now be no different. It is the just and right thing to do‎.

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