Cruz pushes to move US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem

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Republican Senator Ted Cruz submitted a bill proposal to the new US Congress on its very first day calling for the United States to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s eternal and undivided capital and to move its embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.

The Texan senator’s bill, which was also sponsored by Florida Senator Marco Rubio and Nevada Senator Dean Heller, includes an article that suggests Congress would delay the transfer of budgets to the State Department until the move from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem is done.

“Jerusalem is the eternal and undivided capital of Israel,” Cruz, who lost to Donald Trump in the Republican primaries, said in a written statement.

 

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