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John McCain would move the US embassy in Israel to Jerusalem if he were elected president, the presumptive Republican nominee for president told CNN Friday.

In what many considered an indirect attempt to expose Sen. Barack Obama’s apparent fluctuation on the issue, McCain suggested the relocation of the American embassy from Tel Aviv as an affirmation of his own commitment to an “undivided Jerusalem.”

“Right away,” McCain said in the interview. “I’ve been committed to that proposition for years.”

Nevertheless, McCain has emphasized that the city’s final status is subject to negotiation despite his own position on the matter. It remains to be determined whether his promise to act in accordance with the recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital would come to fruition were he elected.

Obama has said that he would only consider moving the embassy once the Israelis and Palestinians come close to a final-status peace agreement.

President George W. Bush also committed to moving the embassy during his 2000 campaign, but failed to do so. Former president Bill Clinton repeatedly postponed the relocation during his time in office, as well. Both used the excuse that such a move would preempt Israeli-Palestinian negotiations and endanger US security interests in the Middle East.

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