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4th Apr '13 6:00:39 PM Surenity

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4th Apr '13 4:42:58 PM RevDave

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30th Mar '13 6:55:22 PM LongLiveHumour

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By Israeli law, Jerusalem is officially the capital of the State of UsefulNotes/{{Israel}}; the Knesset, [[note]]the national legislature; the word literally means "Assembly"[[/note]] President's Office, Prime Minister's Office, Supreme Court, and most government ministries are based in West Jerusalem. However, because Jerusalem was supposed to have been a [[TruceZone city under international administration]] under the UnitedNations Partition Plan of 1947, the international community decided that it would be unseemly to ratify Israel's decision to take the city by force, so all countries continue to maintain their embassies in Tel Aviv.[[note]]In the US, some very pro-Israeli Congressmen pushed through legislation in 1995 requiring that the US embassy be moved to Jerusalem by the end of 1999, but allowed the President to delay the move if "national security concerns" required it. BillClinton, GeorgeWBush, and BarackObama have all availed themselves of this opportunity out of a pragmatic desire to not unnecessarily insult the Palestinians--and an even more pragmatic desire to not spend the money it would take to move the large embassy in Tel Aviv into increasingly-crowded Jerusalem.[[/note]] Additionally, Israeli legislation makes the whole city of Jerusalem the indivisible capital of Israel; this angers Palestinians and dismays pragmatic Israelis and foreigners, recognizing that a partition of the city is likely should the two-state solution be enacted. As a result, the statement "Jerusalem is the capital of Israel" is at once completely non-controversial and extremely controversial.

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By Israeli law, Jerusalem is officially the capital of the State of UsefulNotes/{{Israel}}; the Knesset, [[note]]the national legislature; the word literally means "Assembly"[[/note]] President's Office, Prime Minister's Office, Supreme Court, and most government ministries are based in West Jerusalem. However, because Jerusalem was supposed to have been a [[TruceZone city under international administration]] under the UsefulNotes/UnitedNations Partition Plan of 1947, the international community decided that it would be unseemly to ratify Israel's decision to take the city by force, so all countries continue to maintain their embassies in Tel Aviv.[[note]]In the US, some very pro-Israeli Congressmen pushed through legislation in 1995 requiring that the US embassy be moved to Jerusalem by the end of 1999, but allowed the President to delay the move if "national security concerns" required it. BillClinton, GeorgeWBush, and BarackObama have all availed themselves of this opportunity out of a pragmatic desire to not unnecessarily insult the Palestinians--and an even more pragmatic desire to not spend the money it would take to move the large embassy in Tel Aviv into increasingly-crowded Jerusalem.[[/note]] Additionally, Israeli legislation makes the whole city of Jerusalem the indivisible capital of Israel; this angers Palestinians and dismays pragmatic Israelis and foreigners, recognizing that a partition of the city is likely should the two-state solution be enacted. As a result, the statement "Jerusalem is the capital of Israel" is at once completely non-controversial and extremely controversial.

8th Feb '13 11:13:21 PM Surenity

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Known for its wide variety of religious figures, ranging from too many kinds of ultra-Orthodox Jews to describe here to Franciscan monks to robed-and-veiled Sunni Muslim Arabs. Everyone wants to own it, and a fair number of those who don't own it have shown themselves willing to blow bits up to acquire it. As a result the city is divided into quarters to help keep everyone from doing so; Christian, Jewish, Muslim and [[{{UsefulNotes/Armenia}} Armenian]] [[hottip:*: Which is basically like a second Christian quarter, but with Armenians. They got their own quarter by moving in a few hundred years before everything got divided up. The Armenians had been immigrating there on pilgrimages since the 5th century, but really established their community and presence in the region during the Crusades.]] There was also a "[[UsefulNotes/{{Morocco}} Moroccan]] Quarter", a part of the city adjoining the Muslim and Jewish Quarters inhabited by [[CaptainObvious Moroccans]] both Muslim and Jewish; it was demolished a few days after the Israeli seizure of the Old City for being too close to the Western Wall and absorbed into the Jewish Quarter. Unfortunately for many who want to own Jerusalem, property prices have been driven up by foreigners buying themselves combination vacation-homes and pilgrimage lodges in the form of apartments in some of Jerusalem's better neighborhoods.

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8th Feb '13 11:11:33 PM Surenity

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Known for its wide variety of religious figures, ranging from too many kinds of ultra-Orthodox Jews to describe here to Franciscan monks to robed-and-veiled Sunni Muslim Arabs. Everyone wants to own it, and a fair number of those who don't own it have shown themselves willing to blow bits up to acquire it. As a result the city is divided into quarters to help keep everyone from doing so; Christian, Jewish, Muslim and [[{{UsefulNotes/Armenia}} Armenian]] [[hottip:*: Which is basically like a second Christian quarter, but with Armenians. They got their own quarter by moving in a few hundred years before everything got divided up. They'd been immigrating there on pilgrimages since the 5th century, but really established their community and presence in the region during the Crusades.]] There was also a "[[UsefulNotes/{{Morocco}} Moroccan]] Quarter", a part of the city adjoining the Muslim and Jewish Quarters inhabited by [[CaptainObvious Moroccans]] both Muslim and Jewish; it was demolished a few days after the Israeli seizure of the Old City for being too close to the Western Wall and absorbed into the Jewish Quarter. Unfortunately for many who want to own Jerusalem, property prices have been driven up by foreigners buying themselves combination vacation-homes and pilgrimage lodges in the form of apartments in some of Jerusalem's better neighborhoods.

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8th Feb '13 11:10:44 PM Surenity

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Known for its wide variety of religious figures, ranging from too many kinds of ultra-Orthodox Jews to describe here to Franciscan monks to robed-and-veiled Sunni Muslim Arabs. Everyone wants to own it, and a fair number of those who don't own it have shown themselves willing to blow bits up to acquire it. As a result the city is divided into quarters to help keep everyone from doing so; Christian, Jewish, Muslim and [[{{UsefulNotes/Armenia}} Armenian]] [[hottip:*: Which is basically like a second Christian quarter, but with Armenians. They got their own quarter by moving in a few hundred years before everything got divided up, during the Crusades to be exact.]] There was also a "[[UsefulNotes/{{Morocco}} Moroccan]] Quarter", a part of the city adjoining the Muslim and Jewish Quarters inhabited by [[CaptainObvious Moroccans]] both Muslim and Jewish; it was demolished a few days after the Israeli seizure of the Old City for being too close to the Western Wall and absorbed into the Jewish Quarter. Unfortunately for many who want to own Jerusalem, property prices have been driven up by foreigners buying themselves combination vacation-homes and pilgrimage lodges in the form of apartments in some of Jerusalem's better neighborhoods.

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Known for its wide variety of religious figures, ranging from too many kinds of ultra-Orthodox Jews to describe here to Franciscan monks to robed-and-veiled Sunni Muslim Arabs. Everyone wants to own it, and a fair number of those who don't own it have shown themselves willing to blow bits up to acquire it. As a result the city is divided into quarters to help keep everyone from doing so; Christian, Jewish, Muslim and [[{{UsefulNotes/Armenia}} Armenian]] [[hottip:*: Which is basically like a second Christian quarter, but with Armenians. They got their own quarter by moving in a few hundred years before everything got divided up. They'd been immigrating there on pilgrimages since the 5th century, but really established their community and presence in the region during the Crusades.]] There was also a "[[UsefulNotes/{{Morocco}} Moroccan]] Quarter", a part of the city adjoining the Muslim and Jewish Quarters inhabited by [[CaptainObvious Moroccans]] both Muslim and Jewish; it was demolished a few days after the Israeli seizure of the Old City for being too close to the Western Wall and absorbed into the Jewish Quarter. Unfortunately for many who want to own Jerusalem, property prices have been driven up by foreigners buying themselves combination vacation-homes and pilgrimage lodges in the form of apartments in some of Jerusalem's better neighborhoods.

26th Oct '12 9:04:25 PM filia85

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8th Oct '12 10:30:50 AM Achaemenid

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