Two months after he angered Palestinians and their supporters by unilaterally declaring the US was recognising Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, the US President said both sides would need to work hard to create a deal that might stick. In an interview with the conservative Hebrew-language newspaper Hayom, which is due to be published in full over the weekend, Mr Trump said: “I wanted to make clear that Jerusalem is the capital of Israel. Mr Trump delighted many Israelis and Christian conservatives in the US, when he broke with more than 50 years of international diplomatic consensus to recognise Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and say he would be relocating the US Embassy from Tel Aviv.
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