applause despite arab israeli lawmakers in the knesset being ejected for disrupting the start of the vice president s speech main arab party have warned ahead of time that it would boycott his visit mr pence is the first top u.s. official to visit jerusalem since the trump of ministration decision to recognize the contested city as israel s capital. the w. s jerusalem correspondent a tiny kremlin is near the knesset welcome attorney tell us more about mike pence his message today. well i mean it was a speech mark with a lot of biblical references and he also praised american israeli relations but he also reiterated again the decision by u.s. president chum to recognize jerusalem as the cups of israel because a lot of praise for that in the knesset he said seventy years it has been wrong and has invited by mr trump to take that decision and also as you have said he