responded positively that we would like to welcome him and then few days later it was his office senior advisers or the vice president together with representatives of the white house and the state department came to my office early november and we discussed the vice president s program while visiting bethlehem and palestine it was our proposition for him to meet our president and visit the church of nativity but actually have the opportunity to sit and discuss with christian leaders knowing he has christian minorities and communities in the middle east as a top priority for him and we wanted him to hear from the palestinian christians about their wish and the birthplace of jesus that is bem le hem, the wall and the situation in jerusalem as the city of one god and the city for all of the children of god be it jews, muslims, be it christians and we insisted on that meeting and we arrange it and on wednesday vice president pence stands behind president trump as he announced jerusalem as