Pence's visit, the first by a senior U.S. official to the Middle East following Trump's announcement in December, was initially scheduled in the same month. However, it postponed as protests erupted in the region.
The changed U.S. recognition of Israel's capital is a dramatic change in the status quo and people in the Middle East understood that, Brookings Institution senior fellow Darrell West said.
"Nothing the vice president can say will alter that belief. It will be harder for the United States to be seen as a fair arbiter there," West said.
Wayne White, a policy expert at the Middle East Institute and former State Department official, said the Jerusalem disagreement has struck at the heart of American-Arab relations.
DIM PROSPECT FOR PEACE TALKS
During his stay in Israel, the last leg of his trip and where he seemed most at ease, Pence announced that the United States will open its embassy in Jerusalem before the end of next year.
Although he said the decision to move the embassy was made in the best interests of peace, it was difficult to see how it could improve ties between Israel and Palestine.
It is hard to see a path forward to peace given the antagonisms in that region, West said. Most U.S. leaders are "playing to their bases and (are) not interested in the Middle East peace process," he added.
During Pence's speech in the Knesset, Israel's parliament, Monday, Arab-Israeli lawmakers were forcibly banished from the plenum as they raised flags calling Jerusalem the capital of Palestine.
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