In a bill that cleared Congress this week authorizing spending for State Department programs, lawmakers approved language that symbolically recognizes Jerusalem as the undivided capital of Israel and ...

Gordon Johndroe, of the Bush administration, told me the following: This thing is so routine, don't think there was any intention on our part to signal anything with the language change. We probably ...

Democrats voted Wednesday to reinstate language into their party platform that recognizes Jerusalem as the capital of Israel after Republicans accused them of distancing themselves from a longtime U.S ...

CHARLOTTE, N.C., Sept 5 (Reuters) - Democrats resurrected language in their party platform on Wednesday declaring Jerusalem to be the capital of Israel after Republicans accused them of showing weak ...

Israel has asked the United States to explain why it backed language in a U.N. Security Council resolution this week that defines Jerusalem as occupied Palestinian territory. The resolution, adopted ...

The Republican Party’s platform is said to have reinstated a reference to Jerusalem as the “undivided” capital of Israel, CNN “>called for the Republican Party to “strengthen its language in support ...

CNN reports on the reason this year’s Democratic platform is stripped of certain pro-Israel language: The Democratic National Committee is “simply following what the Obama administration’s policy is.

Under Israeli sovereignty, Jerusalem is the only period in history where all religions enjoy freedom of worship. Jews, ...

At President Obama's behest, and to boos from some delegates, Democrats on Wednesday night inserted a few lines into their party platform affirming Jerusalem as Israel's capital. Two of the lines had ...

In Israel, Arabic has long been taught in schools, spoken in the parliament and posted on road signs. It is not the official language, but neither is Hebrew, the mother tongue of most of the country.

A Republican advocacy group on Friday launched a new print ad campaign seeking to exploit the Democratic National Convention's platform reversal over Jerusalem, charging that the Democrats are "split ...

Democrats will put language recognizing Jerusalem as Israel's capital back into the party platform, NBC News first reported. The 2008 Democratic platform stated that Jerusalem “is and will remain” ...