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Source: https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2017/12/trump-jerusalem-embassy-logic/547688/
Finally, a President Who Looks at Jerusalem Logically
(Atlantic) Einat Wilf - The U.S. decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel's capital is 68 years overdue. Jerusalem was established as the capital of Israel on December 13, 1949. At the time the U.S. was still attached to the idea, proposed in the UN partition resolution of 1947, that greater Jerusalem should be governed by the international community. This fiction never existed anywhere but on paper because the Arabs rejected the partition proposal and started a war to prevent it from being realized. So the U.S. chose a policy that held the status of Israel's capital hostage to a fiction that never had a chance of existing. Trump's declaration finally puts an end to this nonsensical policy. The writer, a senior fellow with the Jewish People Policy Institute, is a former Knesset member.