(Ynet).Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu opened Sunday's weekly cabinet meeting with a promise to his ministers: "Israel's message during the visit to the United States will be sharp and clear. Our policy on Jerusalem is like the policy in the past 42 years (since the capital was united after the Six Day War).
"As far as we are concerned, building in Jerusalem is like building in Tel Aviv, and we have made this clear to the Americans.
"I believed it would be of great importance for these things not to remain in the context of commentary or speculation. I subsequently wrote a letter, at my own initiative, to the secretary of state so that things would be crystal clear."
The prime minister said he planned to raise several issues during his upcoming visit to Washington: Peace, security, Iran and Jerusalem.
"We will be able to raise any issue for negotiation, and have clarified that we will be able to do this better in direct negotiations. Only by sitting this way and talking will we be able to come to real negotiations," Netanyahu said.
