{"id":5513,"date":"2013-02-21T11:15:13","date_gmt":"2013-02-21T17:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/?p=5513"},"modified":"2013-02-21T11:15:21","modified_gmt":"2013-02-21T17:15:21","slug":"rubio-calls-jerusalem-capital-praises-obama-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/rubio-calls-jerusalem-capital-praises-obama-visit\/","title":{"rendered":"Rubio calls Jerusalem &#8216;capital,&#8217; praises Obama visit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON (JTA) &#8212; Senator Marco Rubio in meetings with Israeli leaders said Jerusalem was Israel&#8217;s capital and that he was pleased President Obama was scheduled to visit.<\/p>\n<p>Rubio (R-FL), who delivered the Republican Party response to Obama&#8217;s State of the Union speech last week, met Wednesday in Jerusalem with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Shimon Peres.<\/p>\n<p>The Associated Press quoted Rubio as telling Peres that Jerusalem is &#8220;of course the capital of your country.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It has been the policy of successive U.S. administrations since 1949 not to recognize Jerusalem as Israel&#8217;s capital.<\/p>\n<p>The quote did not appear in Peres&#8217; release about the meeting, which instead emphasized Rubio&#8217;s praise of bipartisan U.S. support for Israel and for the need to stop Iran from obtaining a nuclear bomb.<\/p>\n<p>Similarly, the statement from Netanyahu&#8217;s office noted Rubio&#8217;s approval of Obama&#8217;s visit, which is planned for March.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You live in a challenging neighborhood, but the Israeli-American relationship is one of the most important ones we have, and certainly our commitment to that partnership is bipartisan and it should remain that way,&#8221; Rubio, who is popular among his party&#8217;s conservative wing, told Netanyahu. &#8220;And that&#8217;s why I&#8217;m pleased the president is coming here in March.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/noscript><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"Tumblr\",\"Email\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Rubio%20calls%20Jerusalem%20%27capital%2C%27%20praises%20Obama%20visit\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,25],"tags":[378,8790,8795,8788,2061,2060],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5513"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5513"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5515,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5513\/revisions\/5515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}