McMaster‘s refusal to answer questions about the sovereignty over the Western Wall comes a day after the White House disavowed the U.S. consulate in Jerusalem‘s decision not to hold talks with Israeli officials on Trump‘s Western Wall visit because it is in the West Bank.

„That‘s a policy decision,“ he noted. McMaster also said that Trump will travel from Saudi Arabia to Jerusalem, possibly keeping in line with long-standing American policy to not recognize East Jerusalem, occupied in 1967, as part of Israel.