a speech. some saying it s going to be an historic speech in the knesset but at the end of the day it s very difficult to understand what he means by a new era. of negotiations because he s not going to meet with any palestinian leader official the palestinians have said long ago that they will not meet with the vice president and just protest over that u.s. decision now we re seeing live pictures of appends in the knesset as we talk not only appends again reiterated that the u.s. recognizes jerusalem as the capital of israel what message did he send by making those remarks in jerusalem knowing that the palestinians are enraged mind this decision. well that s exactly that i mean palestinians have made already clear in to send after mr trump made his announcement to recognize true islam as the cups of israel and mr pence was supposed to come of it in december his trip to the region
recognize the contested city as israel s capital and to move the u.s. embassy there. but palestinian leader mahmoud abbas will not be meeting bans he ll be in brussels meeting e.u. officials ahead of the talks foreign policy chief greeny again contradicted u.s. policy on jerusalem this is what she said. clearly there is a problem with jerusalem would say this is a very diplomatic euphemism and we europeans as well as all the art of words and the united nations system such. still continue to believe that the only pragmatic realistic solution for jerusalem has to come from direct negotiations and has to be the capital of two states. if i m on this issue let me draw in our jerusalem correspondent tanya crema she s near the israeli parliament the knesset where mike pence is due to speak and tell me i m mike pence a described jerusalem as the capital of israel what sort of signal of dissent but
saturday after the senate failed to pass a new budget. u.s. vice president mike pence has kicked off his visit to israel saying it was a great honor to be in israel s capital jerusalem bence was both commit military on his as he met israeli prime minister binyamin netanyahu pends is the first top u.s. official to visit jerusalem since the trump administration s decision to officially recognize the contested city as israel s capital and to move the u.s. embassy there ben says his visit to jerusalem will give a boost to the middle east peace process have a listen. making his historic announcement on december the six president roh did so convinced. of that body by recognizing. israel s capital to respond. that we would create an opportunity to move on in good faith negotiations
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
u.s. official to visit jerusalem since the trump administration s decision to officially recognize the contested city as israel s capital and to move the u.s. embassy there. the palestinian leader mahmoud abbas will not be meeting pencey being brussels meeting e.u. officials instead of head of talks e.u. foreign policy chief for dicom o grady again contradicted u.s. policy in jerusalem here s what she said. clearly there is a problem with jerusalem and i would say this is a very diplomatic euphemism and we europeans as well as all the other words and the united nations system as such. still continue to believe that the only pragmatic realistic solution for jerusalem has to come from direct negotiations and has to be the capital of two states. if i m on this issue let me join our jerusalem correspondent tanya crema she s near the israeli parliament the knesset where mike