Who Owns Jerusalem?:
The Israelis claim ownership of the city as their historical capital. In other words, they claim right of
prior ownership. The Israelis have a legal claim to the city as the spoils of war. The Israelis captured the
city in 1967 when they defeated the invading Arab armies, including Jordan. Israel also captured what was historically Judea and Samaria. Today, it's called the West Bank.

The Jordanian citizens caught on the wrong side of the border at the end of the war were abandoned
by their government. They were shoved into refugee camps and presented to the world as the Palestinian people. From one of these refugee camps in 1968 emerged Yasser Arafat and, overnight, Jordanian refugees were
transformed into the 'Palestinian people'.

President Clinton said the Camp David talks failed because of the two sides' refusal to compromise over Jerusalem.
Jerusalem was founded by King David. God gave title deed to Jerusalem to only one people, the Jews. Jerusalem is the only city with a place in eternity. The Arabs say Jerusalem is their holy city, despite the shabby
treatment it historically received at their hands and the lack of support for that designation in their Koran.
By the mid-19th century, the city was a neglected backwater where Jews were in the majority. Israel
refuses to divide the city, claiming it will remain their eternal, undivided capital forever.

Yasser Arafat demands the city be divided and the half with the Temple Mount be given to him for his capital city. Both sides can't be right. King Solomon was once faced with a similarly perplexing dilemma. Two women both claimed the same baby. Solomon offered to divide the child in half. One woman agreed, the other refused. Solomon concluded the one with the right to the child is the one who refused to divide it. It will take someone with the wisdom of Solomon to get these two sides to agree on
anything where Jerusalem is concerned.

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