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This is a groundless and dangerous assumption, which impels me to declare today: There will never be such a re-division of Jerusalem. Never. ”

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Those are the words with which Prime Minister Netanyahu, then serving his first tour as the democratically elected leader of Israel, spoke of Jerusalem in his address to a Joint Meeting of the Congress on July 10, 1996. When he declared the city would never be divided again, and repeated the word “never,” the chamber erupted in applause. In the C-Span broadcast, Mr. Netanyahu’s remarks on Jerusalem begin at 41:27. Members of both parties leapt to their feet, giving the declaration of the Israeli leader an unambiguous expression of approval on behalf of the American people.

When the applause died down — the ovation lasted nearly a full minute — Mr. Netanyahu said this: “We shall not allow a Berlin Wall to be erected inside Jerusalem. We will not drive out anyone, but neither shall we be driven out of any quarter, any neighborhood, any street of our eternal capital.”

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