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When ran for the White House in 2000, he promised to begin moving the embassy on the first day of his administration, but in December of 2001, not a full year into his presidency, Mr. Bush also invoked the waiver. He has been such a staunch friend of Israel and, by anyone’s lights, is entitled to extraordinary room to maneuver in a time of war. So neither Israel nor others have sought to pressure him.

Next week, just in time for the 40th anniversary of the Six Day War, the Congress is being asked — in a bipartisan demarche in the House — to make a statement in respect of Jerusalem. Israel’s capital was liberated during the war. All over this city — even this country — there are those who will carry to their graves the thrill of those hours and of the weeks that followed, when so many New Yorkers and others made their first visits to the City of David and on tiny slips of paper scrawled their prayers and pressed them into the cracks of the Western Wall. Over the next few days those who were there will be sharing the stories with their children, partly for the pleasure of it and partly in the hope that their children will remember and tell their own children. NYsun.com