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October 1, 2002       Share:    

Source: http://www.cnn.com/2002/ALLPOLITICS/09/30/us.israel.jerusalem/index.html

Bush Rebuffs Congress on Jerusalem

(CNN) - President Bush said his administration was not legally bound to follow a congressionally-mandated provision to identify Jerusalem as Israel's capital. The Foreign Relations Authorization Act, signed by the president on Monday, includes a provision that requires all federal documents listing countries and their capitals to identify Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. White House press secretary Ari Fleischer said that White House lawyers read the provision as "advisory, not mandatory."

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