America Will Stand with Israel

Trump’s Team Preparing the Embassy Move

President-elect Donald Trump’s transition team has begun exploring the logistics of moving the US Embassy from Tel Aviv, and checking into sites for its intended new location.
Israel’s Foreign Ministry has already gotten involved in the matter, with officials in Jerusalem checking into when a possible site for the embassy, in an area that includes the Diplomat Hotel in Jerusalem’s Talpiot neighborhood, would be available.
The Trump team’s advance work on moving the embassy is being conducted without coordination with the US State Department, and officials there “deeply dislike the idea”.
The US government purchased the land on which the Diplomat Hotel sits in 2014, but the hotel itself remains privately owned and leased out to the Immigrant Absorption Ministry.
The Diplomat Hotel area adjoins the existing US Consulate compound in Talpiot, and has therefore been considered a potentially logical site for the embassy should it move, but it is not the only potential site.
During the 2016 election, Trump pledged to end a longstanding White House policy to perpetually defer a 1995 Congressional decision to recognize Jerusalem as the Israeli capital and move the embassy there.
Israel took control of East Jerusalem in its 1967 war with its Arab neighbors and annexed it, declaring that the city would remain whole and unified as its eternal capital (and later building many settlements there that most of the world considers illegal). The United States and most other countries refused to recognize the annexation and kept their embassies in or near Tel Aviv.
The Bible prophecies that America will stand with Israel all the way to the Battle of Armageddon.
For the United States to move its embassy to Jerusalem, would be just one more sign that this prophecy is being fulfilled as we speak.

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