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| 1 year ago :: Apr 30, 2012 - 8:26AM #21 | |
shmuelgoldstein
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Fact: Israel's Parliament is located in Jerusalem Fact: Israel's Supreme Court is located in Jerusalem. Fact: The residence of the Prime Minister and the President of Israel are in Jerusalem. Fact: Most main government offices are located in Jerusalem. Fact: Israel considers Jerusalem the capital of Israel. but Fact: Most nations of the world do not recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.
(and this has nothing to do with those parts of Jerusalem liberated in the Six-Day War).
To deny that Jerusalem is the capital of Israel is a political, not a factual, statement. To not recognize it as the capital and locate your embassy in a different city is a political and diplomatic act that does not reflect the reality of the situation. If the Guardian wants to make a political statement, that's fine. But it is not a statement based on fact. |
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| 1 year ago :: Apr 30, 2012 - 9:19AM #22 | |
BDboy
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>>>>>>>>> Maybe Israel will "Help out" all the Muslim residents out of Jerusalem in coming days, it will NOT change FACTS on ground. Israel uses "Force" to establish what it wishes to do. Problem with this idea is it cannot colonize the world population the way it occupied Palestinian land and parts of Jerusalem!! Israel is the inspiration for groups like Hamas in more than one ways. Like Israel they also want to "Force" Israel out of Jerusalem, which they feel is "Rightfully" their place. On a side note, it is also a FACT that, Israeli foreign minister (Secretary of state) lives in Palestinian west Bank. That does NOT make that place "Israel's"!!
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| 1 year ago :: Apr 30, 2012 - 9:47AM #23 | |
rocketjsquirell
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BDboy There is no "West Bank" nor is the area known as Judea and Samaria "Palestinian". The area is part of Israel until such time as Israel may choose to donate portions thereof to help establish yet another Palestinian State. This will happen only through negotiations between the parties, which you oppose. Since you oppose negotiations, you oppose any lands in Judea and Samaria ever being "Palestinian" |
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| 1 year ago :: Apr 30, 2012 - 10:40AM #24 | |
Miraj
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The US officially recognized Jerusalem as Israel's capital in 1995, when Clinton signed the Jerusalem Embassy Act. The embassy remains in Tel Aviv under a provision of the act that allows the president to waive moving the embassy, citing national security reasons. Every president since has done so. Disclaimer: The opinions of this member are not primarily informed by western ethnocentric paradigms, stereotypes rooted in anti-Muslim/Islam hysteria, "Israel can do no wrong" intransigence, or the perceived need to protect the Judeo-Christian world from invading foreign religions and legal concepts. By expressing such views, no inherent attempt is being made to derail or hijack threads, but that may be the result. The result is not the responsibility of this member. 
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| 1 year ago :: May 01, 2012 - 1:31AM #25 | |
rangerken
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I'll add also that whereas I'm opposed to the one state solution, the capital of a 'one state' would, obviously be Jerusalem. Ken
Conservative, Libertarian, Life member of the NRA and VFW
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