The U.S. Vice President Mike Pence who was scheduled to travel to Israel in January is indefinitely postponing his trip once again.
A visit to Israel by Pence that had been delayed from last month to mid-January did not appear on a list of visiting foreign officials for this month Israeli media reported.
Pence originally postponed a planned mid-December visit to Israel allegedly so he could preside over the vote on a tax overhaul favored by Trump. It was believed that Pence might have been needed to cast the deciding vote in the closely divided Senate.
A White House official at the time said that Pence would visit in mid-January instead.
The trip was originally meant to encompass Israel the Palestinian Authority and Egypt but was modified because Palestinian leaders have refused to meet with Pence in the wake of President Donald Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.
It also has been suggested that Pence has indefinitely postponed his trip due to the refusal of Palestinian officials as well as Muslim and Christian clerics in Jerusalem to meet with him over the U.S. announcement on Jerusalem.
