By Brian Freeman
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Las Vegas billionaire Sheldon Adelson, who gave President Donald Trump\u2019s inauguration its single largest donation at $5 million, is furious about comments Secretary of State Rex Tillerson made on Sunday regarding Trump\u2019s campaign promise to move the U.S. embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, Axios<\/strong><\/a> reported.<\/p>\n When asked about Trump\u2019s vow to move the embassy to Jerusalem, Tillerson told NBC\u2019s \u201cMeet The Press\u201d<\/strong><\/a> that the president \u201chas rightly taken a very deliberative approach on the issue,\u201d insisting that because Trump “wants to put a lot of effort into seeing if we cannot advance a peace initiative between Israel and Palestine… the president is being very careful to understand how such a decision [moving the embassy] would impact a peace process.”<\/p>\n Adelson, who along with his wife also spent more than $80 million on Republican campaigns during the last election, reportedly said that Trump\u2019s promise was not contingent on the progress of the peace process since that was always the rationale of previous presidents, and Trump\u2019s vow was meant to differentiate from that view.<\/p>\n Israel’s position is that all embassies should be in its capital, Jerusalem, but the international community has maintained that the status of the city should only be decided when there is a peace treaty with the Palestinians, who insist that the eastern half of Jerusalem should be their capital.<\/p>\n Congress passed a law in 1995 that an undivided Jerusalem should be considered Israel’s capital and that the American embassy should be moved there no later than 1999, but presidents Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama all decided to use a clause in the bill which allowed them to delay the move at regular six-month intervals if they thought national security would be endangered, The Jewish Chronicle<\/strong><\/a> reported.<\/p>\n Earlier this month, marking Israel\u2019s Independence Day, Vice President Mike Pence said that the Trump administration was continuing to give “serious consideration” to moving the embassy to Jerusalem, The Times of Israel <\/strong><\/a>reported.<\/p>\n