Jerusalem will remain the capital of Israel, and it must remain undivided.
In a press briefing, White House deputy spokesman Josh Earnest not only refused to acknowledge that Jerusalem is the capital of Israel.
And it stresses that Jerusalem, a city with a current Muslim population of about 280, 000, "will always be the undivided capital of Israel".
Obama also has said he believes that Jerusalem will be the capital of Israel, remarks that have caused concern among some Palestinian leaders.
But Jerusalem would be the undivided capital of Israel, which the Palestinians must recognise as a specifically Jewish state as a precondition for any deal.
Governor Romney declared flatly that Jerusalem is the capital of Israel.
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He did not live long enough to see his dream of a city of Jerusalem shared on peace, the capital of Israel and the capital of Palestine.
Majorities in both states believe that the initial omission of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel in the 2012 Democratic platform was intentional, according to the polls.
Mr Netanyahu insisted the city must be the "united capital of Israel", although Palestinians want it divided to allow them to locate the capital of a future state there.
The 1995 Jerusalem Embassy Act, passed nearly unanimously by both houses of Congress, explicitly stated that it is the policy of the United States that Jerusalem should be recognized as the capital of Israel.
He said Jerusalem would remain the capital of Israel -- refusing to yield on a sensitive issue for Palestinians -- and that a Palestinian state would have to be fully demilitarized to ensure the safety of Israel.
For example, Romney made a point of calling Jerusalem the capital of Israel, though he conceded in the interview with CNN that the issue must be resolved through negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians -- the position of Obama and previous presidents.
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The Council confirmed that the EU would not recognise any changes made by Israel to its post-1967 borders, and insisted that Jerusalem must be the capital of both Israel and any future Palestinian state.
Given that it is election season, and then-candidate Obama's stated support for Jerusalem as Israel's capital in 2008, the Obama administration could reasonably have made its own endorsement of Jerusalem as Israel's capital city.
The administration's policy toward Jewish building in Israel's heartland and capital city expose a massive level of hostility toward Israel.
The refusal of successive administrations to locate the US Embassy in Jerusalem, Israel's capital, is not simply an indignity, but another example of how the US has consistently prevented Israel from gaining any political advantage from its military victories against Arab aggression.
With violence as a backdrop, Palestinian and Israeli delegations began discussions this week about so-called core issues in their conflict, including Israeli settlements in the West Bank, the right of Palestinian refugees to return to Israel and Jerusalem as the shared capital of a future Palestinian state.
According to Haaretz, a well-informed Israeli newspaper, Mr Barak will try to trade his recognition of Palestinian independence for the Palestinians' recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital, though he will suggest extending the city's limits so that part of it becomes the Palestinians' capital too.
In keeping with its practice in every other nation with whom it has diplomatic relations and an official presence, the United States will place its embassy in Israel in the capital of the Jewish State, Jerusalem.
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The Israelis had an independent commonwealth in the Land of Israel, and their capital city was Jerusalem.
The Palestinians want it for their capital but Israel insists it is part of the indivisible and eternal capital of the Jewish state.
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In order to maintain sovereignty over its capital, Israel has built a ring of settlements around the occupied, predominantly Arab east side of Jerusalem.
Israeli officials this week approved the demolition of a score of Arab homes in Jerusalem beneath the most contested ground in the occupied territories, the Old City's al-Aqsa shrine which the Palestinians prize as part of their hoped-for capital and Israel reveres as the Temple Mount.
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True or not, there is no questioning the rider to the proposition: that high-handed unilateral action to determine the future of a city that both Israel and the Palestinians claim as their capital could well destroy any hope of a peace agreement.
Arabs are sharply split over their handling of the row about Israel's portrayal of the whole of Jerusalem as its capital at Walt Disney's Millennium Village, due to open in Florida on October 1st.
But the law's recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital was unconditional.
The leaders who came to Jerusalem are not friends of Israel and their presence in our capital did not demonstrate that Operation Cast Lead enjoyed international backing.
And they are demanding, just as unrealistically, that the new state should be founded on the principle that East Jerusalem is its sovereign capital and that the refugees who were forced out of Israel in 1948 have the right to return.
The totality of these changes has the potential to compel much-needed upheaval in Israel's capital markets, regulatory structures, and perhaps even the nation's very view of itself.
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