WHITE HOUSE CORRECTS OBAMA SPEECH TRANSCRIPT LISTING JERUSALEM IN ISRAEL: USA President Barack Obama offered heartfelt condolences at the funeral of his late friend, Shimon Peres, on Friday 30 Sept. 2016, traveling for 22 hours to spend just six on the ground in a show of support. But whether he was on Israeli ground to pay respects to one of the founding fathers of the Jewish state is a question that now risks eclipsing his gesture, after the White House issued an embarrassing correction indicating that Jerusalem is, in fact, disputed territory. The transcript of Obama's eulogy of Peres, who was buried on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem, originally listed the ceremony was held in Jerusalem, Israel. Six hours later, the White House sent out a corrected version of the transcript with Israel explicitly crossed out of the header.

While the Democratic Party Platform recognizes Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, the State Department has long demurred from doing so– and does not refer to the city, unified since 1967, as Israeli territory. House Speaker Paul Ryan's office weighed in immediately upon hearing of the correction. "Speaker Ryan was proud to visit Jerusalem, the capital of Israel, earlier this year," his spokesperson, AshLee Strong, told media sources. Israeli officials privately expressed frustration at the White House's move, but declined to immediately comment. The Israeli government has long maintained that Jerusalem is its "undivided and eternal capital," and will remain so under any peace agreement resulting in the establishment of a Palestinian state. (J.Post) “The moon will be disgraced and the sun ashamed; for the Lord of hosts will reign on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem and before His elders, gloriously.” Isa 24:23