Moving US embassy to Jerusalem would be ‘a terrible mistake’
20 January 2017 |
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Our guest is Daniel Kurtzer, a former US ambassador to Egypt and Israel. He believes US President-elect Donald Trump's choice of David Friedman to be US ambassador to Israel is a serious mistake and is calling on Trump to withdraw the nomination.
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