NewKidInTown schreef op 28 april 2018 11:08:
"President Trump May Visit Israel for Jerusalem Embassy Opening"
"President Donald Trump indicated Friday that he may visit Israel for the opening of the new U.S. embassy in Jerusalem on May 14.
Trump was speaking alongside German Chancellor Angela Merkel during a press conference in the East Room of the White House.
In answering a question about the embassy, Trump recalled the story of how he had rejected a proposal to build a new embassy for $1 billion over several years in favor of relocating the embassy to the existing consular facility for several hundred thousand dollars:
They came to me with a proposal for a $1 billion embassy in Jerusalem … I called my ambassador, who is a great lawyer … David Friedman, the Ambassador to Israel … I said, what is this $1 billion? He said, I can build it for $150,000. … he said, “I can build it for 150 thousand dollars, the embassy. We have a building, we have the site … we can fix it up and make it beautiful, open our embassy. Instead of ten years from now, we can open it up in three months.”
The ultimate cost of renovations, was somewhat higher, he noted, but still just in the several hundreds of thousands of dollars."
www.breitbart.com/jerusalem/2018/04/2...Het lijkt mij een mooie gelegenheid om dat prachtige land eens te bezoeken, een democratische oase te midden van een woestijn van ondemocratische mensenrechtenschenders.