Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu addressed the issue of the relocation of the US embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to the capital of Jerusalem during the weekly Likud faction meeting Monday.
"The US Embassy should move to Jerusalem, and so should other embassies. I presented this position in my meetings with world leaders, with all of the diplomatic corps, and with the Likud faction," Netanyahu said at the start of the faction meeting.
Netanyahu added, "Not only will the transfer of the embassy not harm the peace process, on the contrary, it will advance it, by shattering the illusion."
"I am happy to hear that other parties are also adopting the Likud's message [on the relocation of the embassy]. This is very good. Keep it up," the Prime Minister said of Education Minister Naftali Bennett's calls for the government to make it clear to the Trump Administration that the only acceptable location for the embassy is in Jerusalem.
The Prime Minister's Office released a statement yesterday saying that the transfer of the US embassy to Jerusalem would 'shatter the Arab fantasy' of denying Israel's sovereignty in its own capital.
"Israel's position has often been expressed to the American administration and to the world,” the PMO’s statement read. "The transfer of the American Embassy to Jerusalem not only will not harm the peace process, but the opposite. It will advance it by correcting a historic injustice and by smashing the Palestinian fantasy that Jerusalem is not the capital of Israel."