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We heard the president do what we suspected he would, declaring jerusalem is the capital of israel, also calling on the state department to begin to prepare to move that embassy from tel aviv to jerusalem. we are told from officials inside the white house, that is a process that is going to take years. the president started his speech by talking about the old challenges, old challenges demanding new approaches. mentioned the '95 jerusalem embassy act. that's been a act largely disregarded by his predecessors, president bush and president obama. kristen welker is still with us and so is eamon, ...

1950. however, at no point recognized jerusalem as israel's capital. nor did governments around the world. every embassy to the world remains in tel aviv to this day. 1967, another led to gaza seizing the west strip, west bank, and east jerusalem which was then controlled by jordan. now, the annexation of east jerusalem which displaced many was not recognized by the international community and is the main factor for preventing israeli and palestinian peace talks. maybe not the main factor. nevertheless, in 1980 israel passed a law declaring jerusalem complete and united as the capital of israe...