How Jerusalem Became a Wedge Issue

As for Romney, the “different kind of President” – I’ll believe it when I ‎see it. True, he does refer to Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. Obama did the ‎exact same thing when he was still a candidate. Would Romney move ‎the American embassy to Jerusalem as a result of him being different? ‎Maybe, maybe not. Bush made such promise and never kept it. ‎Romney, to his credit, didn’t promise. He will be “different”, possibly, ‎he just won’t tell us how. ‎

So Romney’s new Jerusalem ad is full of nonsensical negligibles of little ‎importance. Except for one thing: Obama does refuse to recognize ‎Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. A few days ago, White House spokesman ‎Jay Carney repeatedly and quite comically evaded a question about ‎which city the US government recognizes as Israel’s capital. ‎