A Q&A explainer on why moving the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem is so fraught?If the world knows nothing else, the world will know this: America stands with Israel,? Pence said.
?We are also reviewing additional steps to demonstrate America?s support, including assessing whether the American embassy in Israel should be relocated.?President Donald Trump on the campaign trail last year had pledged to move the embassy, although he?s softened his stance since taking office in January.
America, like most other nations, has traditionally kept its embassy in Tel Aviv due to the conflicting claims to east Jerusalem.
Israel claims the entire city as its capital, but the Palestinians seek the eastern sector, captured by Israel in 1967, as their future capital and have warned that moving the embassy would be explosive.
Adelson, who had a private dinner with Trump at the White House earlier this month, was among those seated for the vice president?s speech.
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