Page 4 - For Jerusalem News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Throughout the millennial history of the jewish capital, the only time that jews, christians and muslims could worship freely, could have unfettered access to their holy sites has been during israel's sovereignty over jerusalem. jerusalem must never again be divided. jerusalem must remain the united capital of israel. >> i know this is a difficult issue for palestinians. but i believe that with creativity and with goodwill, a

>> this compromise must reflect the dramatic demographic changes that have occurred since 1967. the vast majority of the 650,000 israelis who live beyond the 1967 lines reside in neighbor hoods and suburbs of jerusalem and greater tel aviv. now, these areas are densely populated, but they're geographically quite small. and under any realistic peace agreement, these areas, as well as other places of critical strategic and national importance have been incorporateded into the final borders of israel.

Administration. that's the wife of prime minister netanyahu, sara. and the speaker of the house, john boehner, is obviously there, as well. once again, they will introduce him. there will be another standing ovation. then he'll begin his carefully prepared remarks. i'm going to be listening. i'm going to be listening specifically what he says on the pre-'67 swaps. about settlements on the west bank and specifically if he says anything about jerusalem. jerusalem is the subject the president said has to be kicked down the road. i'll be listening to see if he gets into those specifics of the refu...

>> 26 standing ovations there. and some very provocative statements. but coming forward, saying the conflict has never been about the existence of a palestinian state but a jewish state. he also talked about the fact that jerusalem must remain the united capital of israel. that palestinian refugees -- that issue would be resolved outside the borders. again, he called for a fully demilitarized palestinian state. >> i also heard, one of the statements that got him the loudest standing ovation is in the west bank in adjudicatia and sa maria. jews are not foreign occupiers. he said that any final ...

Those constructed on land, it was captured in the 1967 war, the six-day war by israel, would stay within the borders of a future jewish state. that's not something that would necessarily be acceptable to the palestinians in their negotiating position. and that's, of course, before he even got to this central issue of the old city of jerusalem. benjamin netanyahu making the point that in his opinion jerusalem would remain united as the capital of the israeli/jewish state. and that's something that's going to obviously be a major sticking point in the future. >> all right. matthew chance in jeru...