Netanyahu: Recognizing Jerusalem as the Capital ‘Will Be Remembered by Our People’

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NETANYAHY: "Thank you. Thank you. Mr. President, Donald, Melania, Sara and I want to thank you for your extraordinary friendship and hospitality. It’s always a pleasure to see you both. But this is the first time we’ve met in Washington, America’s capital after you declared Mr. President Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. And this was a historic proclamation followed by your bold decision to move the embassy by our upcoming National Independence day. I want to tell you the Jewish people have a long memory. So we remember the proclamation of the great king, Cyrus the Great, Persian King, 2200 years ago. He proclaimed that the Jewish exiles in Babylon can come back and rebuild our temple in Jerusalem. We remember 100 years ago, the Lord Balfour who issued the Balfour proclamation that recognized the rights of the Jewish people in our ancestral homeland. We remember 70 years ago, President Harry S. Truman was the first leader to recognize the Jewish state. And we remember how a few weeks ago President Donald J. Trump recognized Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. Mr. President this will be remembered by our people throughout the ages."