Hello again, a few days ago, the U.S. moved its Israeli embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem,

here speaking in Washington, President Trump.

For many years, we failed to acknowledge the obvious, the plain reality that Israel's capital is Jerusalem. On December 6th, 2017, at my direction,

the United States finally and officially recognized Jerusalem as the true capital of Israel.

At the ceremony itself, the president's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, had this to say.

He also declared that we would soon move our embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, and just five

months later, we are standing on these grounds.

As Kushner was speaking, six weeks of mass protest reached a climax in Gaza.

It was the 70th anniversary of what

Palestinians called the Day of Catastrophe or Nakba, when they were forced to make way for the

establishment of Israel. Armed with rocks and slingshots and kites carrying fire bombs, some

demonstrators tried to breach the border fence. Israeli snipers killed 60 people.

A 10-week-old baby reportedly suffocated from tear gas.

1,700 Palestinians were hospitalized.

There were no Israeli casualties.

Hemi Shalev is a senior columnist for the Israeli newspaper Aretz.

Thank you so much for joining our podcast.

To Charles Dickens in A Tale of Two Cities, what did you mean?

Well, I think there was a split screen that was broadcast on television, televisions in Israel,

and throughout the world was just a study in stark contrast. We had Israel rejoicing

along with at the American, the site of the new American embassy in Jerusalem and the carnage

in Gaza. And I just thought that the two, you know, it was like, what came to mind was the famous opening of Charles Dickens' tale of two cities, you know, a spring of hope and a winter of despair, and they were one juxtaposed against the other. And I just thought it was a stark contrast.

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