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McCain calls for moving U.S. embassy to Jerusalem
By Haaretz Service
Tags: John McCain, Barack Obama
Republican presidential candidate
Sen. John McCain on Friday said that
he believes the American embassy in
Israel should be moved from Tel Aviv
to Jerusalem.
"Jerusalem is undivided,
Jerusalem is the capital and we should
move the embassy to Jerusalem before
anything happens,"
McCain said while campaigning in Miami.
McCain stressed, however,
that the "subject of Jerusalem itself
will be addressed in negotiations by
the Israeli government and people."
The presidential hopeful was responding
to comments made by Democratic rival Barack Obama,
who told the American Israel Public Affairs Committee
(AIPAC) on Wednesday that he would not allow Iran
to acquire nuclear arms, and that Jerusalem would
remain the undivided capital of Israel.
"Let me be clear," Obama said,
"Israel's security is sacrosanct.
It is non-negotiable.
The Palestinians need a state
that is contiguous and cohesive
and that allows them to prosper.
But any agreement with the Palestinian
people must preserve Israel's identity
as a Jewish state, with secure,
recognized and defensible borders.
Jerusalem will remain the capital of Israel,
and it must remain undivided," he added,
in efforts to secure the Jewish vote.
But a campaign adviser clarified
Thursday that Obama believes
"Jerusalem is a final status issue,
which means it has to be negotiated
between the two parties" as part of
"an agreement that they both can live with."
McCain took the op****tunity to
criticize Obama for changing his
position on Jerusalem,
as well as on "sitting down and talking
unconditionally with Ahmadinejad and other
dictators."
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