About US Embassy Relocation to Jerusalem, Former CIA Official: Trump is Now Throwing Gas Contains Oil into Fire

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**JERUSALEM-The decision of President of the United States (USA) Donald Trump who will inaugurate the opening of the United States embassy in Jerusalem on Monday (13/5), received international condemnation.** Bruce Riedel, a former US intelligence official, the CIA, who now leads the Intelligence Project at the Brookings Institution, sees that, with increasing tensions between Iran and Israel in Syria, Trump is now 'throwing oil-laden gas into the fire' by moving the embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. "It's very dangerous," Riedel said. In contrast, US ambassador to Israel David Friedman that the move the embassy will bring stability in the region. In the long term, we believe this decision creates opportunities and platforms for the peace process based on reality rather than fantasy. We are optimistic that this decision will ultimately create stability rather than the opposite, "Friedman said. The US State Department declared the opening of the embassy to coincide with the 70-year anniversary of America's recognition of Israel as a country. The day of the founding of Israel, which the Palestinians celebrate as the Day of Disaster or Nakba, is the day when hundreds of Palestinians were forced to flee their homes at the start of the 1948 Israeli occupation. Trump Himself has been a week ago to ensure that he will not be present to inaugurate the US embassy in Jerusalem. He pointed to a presidential delegation. The group was led by Deputy Secretary of State John Sullivan. In the group, Trump and daughter Trump, Ivanka with her husband, White House advisor Jared Kushner, and US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin.