Bill Clinton in The Courage to be Free, by Ron DeSantis

On Foreign Policy: Promised to move US Embassy to Jerusalem, but did not

During the 2016 campaign, Donald Trump promised that, if elected, he would move the US embassy in Israel to Jerusalem. US law since the 1990s identified Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and, as a result, the proper site of the US Embassy, but the law included a waiver provision (in classic DC style) that allowed presidents over two decades to punt on relocation of our embassy every six months--even though Presidents Clinton and Bush had promised to move it.

After his election, I believed that President Trump, unlike Bush and Clinton, would follow through with his promise.

Prior to the 2017 waiver deadline, I convened a subcommittee hearing to press the movement of our embassy to Jerusalem. The next month, Pres. Trump announced that the US would be relocating its embassy in Israel to Jerusalem. The formal ceremony in May 2018 was a major event, which I attended in person. Did the relocation of our embassy to Jerusalem lead to a massive conflict, as the Beltway experts predicted? Not at all.

Source: The Courage to be Free, by Gov. Ron DeSantis, p. 33 Feb 28, 2023

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