Muslims at the Annual hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia blamed the Arab disunity for America’s relocation of its embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.
The Muslims further criticised what they described as discordant Arab leaders for failing to block President Donald Trump’s decision to move the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem after he recognised the city as Israel’s capital.
It was a reversal of decades of American policy and the embassy opened in May at a high-profile ceremony attended by Trump’s daughter Ivanka and his son-in-law Jared Kushner, the U.S. envoy to the Middle East.
The status of Jerusalem home to sites holy to the Muslim, Jewish and Christian religions is one of the biggest obstacles to any peace agreement between Israel and the Palestinians.
The United Nations says the status of the ancient city whose eastern sector was captured by Israel in the 1967 Middle East war…
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