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The building itself sits right next to the green line which delynn yiynn -- delineates east west jerusalem. it holds very little practical significance in terms of modern day jerusalem, and yet that zone retains incredible political importance. the mayor of jerusalem celebrated the official opening by posting new road signs. >> it sends a very clear message to jerusalemites and others with the support that israel has in the solidarity of the new embassy. >> other countries were looking to move their ame aembassy. so far only guatemala has agreed to do that.

Embassies to jerusalem. >> elise lavit, thank you very much. the decision to have the u.s. recognize jerusalem as its nation's capital has been heralded by some and decried by others. but what are the actual implications. cnn's orren libra en liebermann look. >> reporter: among the reasons for the palestinians to celebrate is this. >> we are delighted with president trump's decision to move the embassy here. it says a simple thing, peace must be based on truth. >> reporter: but why is this such a big deal? israel has always seen jerusalem as its capital city. why not the rest of the world? a...

Palestinians. >> the palestinians have not talked to the israelis or the united states since this move, and they say it delegitimizes this move as an honest broker. they say this is kind of a recognition of what is long known to be fact, that while the whole idea of the boundaries of jerusalem are up for negotiations between the palestinians and the israelis, some part of jerusalem will be israel's capital. will that be the whole city, will that be the whole municipal? that remains to be seen between the parties, but what president trump has said is that he's kind of taking off the table the i...

Strongly for all to respect the city's status quo, in accordance with the relevant u.n. resolutions." palestinians want jerusalem to be their capital too and express their displeasure by burning pictures of president trump and declaring what they call "three days of rage," although the feared rights did not materialize today. a number of sources on the ground tell me that was because of the weather in jerusalem. but the chilly rain did not take down the temperature of the rights. palestinian spokesperson saying that the peace process has failed and the turks warned this would push the region o...

Dangerous and practice. what changed? >> what's interesting is, it's not just former presidents but the american people. in 1995, the american people, through the members of congress, said they wanted to acknowledge jerusalem and they wanted the embassy moved there, like we do in every other country, having the embassy of the capital. what happened is, president after president kept being told, don't do it, don't do it, you'll mess up the product to make peace process. 22 years later, we haven't had a peace process. what the president did today, one cannot listen to the will of american people...