ground and we have to remember this is a rather big week as you said we have the embassy opening to margery islam day is today the day after the embassy opens its knockabout day the day of catastrophe marked by the palestinians end of the week is the beginning of ramadan the muslim holy month and we have to remember last night israel won the your vision song contest so there's a lot of intersecting threads of a story coming together here are my let's talk about the opening of the u.s. embassy in jerusalem now it is a very controversial move why is that. it's hard to understand exactly why it's controversial without understanding the entire history of the city of jerusalem of basically israel has always claimed that the entire city of jerusalem is their capital which is not something that is internationally recognized and in fact jerusalem day marks the time after the nine hundred sixty seven war when israel annexed east jerusalem which is what the palestinians claim as their capital now most country is keep their embassies in tel aviv in order to avoid any sort of controversy or clash with the pa