Scott Powers
President Donald Trump‘s decision to move America’s embassy in Israel to Jerusalem has a congressional sponsor, U.S. Rep. Ron DeSantis, who’s been pushing the issue for several years.
DeSantis, the Republican from Ponte Vedra Beach, introduced a bill Thursday to have Congress declare Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and to seek to move the United States embassy there by the beginning of 2019.
The bill immediately attracted 28 co-sponsors, including Republican U.S. Reps. Matt Gaetz of Fort Walton Beach and Ted Yoho of Gainesville.
Internationally and nationally, the move is seen as a divisive issue because of the divided status of Jerusalem, both currently and historically, and its critical role in peace negotiations. That divisiveness has partisan roots in the United States, but many Democrats, notably U.S. Reps. Debbie Wasserman Schultz of Weston and Ted Deutch of Boca Raton, advocate U.S. recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.
DeSantis has introduced similar bills in the past. This one, labeled “The Recognition of Jerusalem as the Capital of the State of Israel Act,” is aimed at supporting and reinforcing Trump’s declaration earlier this month. It states that it is U.S. policy to recognize Jerusalem as the undivided capital of Israel and expresses the sense of Congress that the President shall relocate the U.S. Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem by January 1, 2019.
“Instead of addressing ongoing international conflicts and working to uphold human rights, the United Nations is holding an emergency session in order to indulge its pathological anti-Israel bias,” DeSantis said in a news release issued by his office. “I am proud to stand by our friends in Israel and to follow up on President Trump’s historic recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s eternal capital by introducing the Recognition of Jerusalem as the Capital of the State of Israel Act. For decades, the United States has worked hand in hand with our allies at the UN to provide hundreds of millions in foreign aid, but as President Trump said yesterday, ‘we’re not going to be taken advantage of any longer.’ Congress should take this vote into consideration as we determine which allies are deserving of our generous foreign aid.”
2 comments
RICHARD KOPEL
December 22, 2017 at 3:13 pm
How about we have a real investigation into 9/11 and the USS Liberty attack? Both were staged by Israel to pull the USA into fighting their wars since their citizens are too precious to risk fighting Israel’s wars. I don’t believe for a second that Israel is our friend. Israel has hijacked our government and are robbing us blind. Israel sent snipers to Iraq to kill American soldiers and blame the Muslims. Israel constantly stages false flags against Americans, they have no problem slaughtering us. Israel sells our military secrets to any nation willing to pay such as China.
Wasserman-Schultz is nobody to brag about supporting this bill. She has kept the Awan brothers in congress spying and downloading all top secret and above information which they have sold to Arab nations for profit. Awan brothers have been running uranium, drugs, weapons and child sex operations for many years.
Wasserman-Schultz deserves nothing less than to hang for high treason, along with all the Awan family and those working with them to destroy our republic. I am not anti-Jewish at all, I married a beautiful Jewish woman in 2007 and she doesn’t approve of the Zionists ruthless criminality either.
Cassandra Todd Carraway
December 22, 2017 at 7:52 pm
Every story is factual and interesting. Thank you.
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