Jordan: East Jerusalem cannot be part of Israel's capital

[Scurrilous]

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"The Jordanian government on Monday rejected Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's claim that Jerusalem would remain the undivided capital of Israel and that the Jewish state has a free hand to set up settlements throughout the West Bank.

"The West Bank, including East Jerusalem, are occupied territories according to several resolutions issued by the United Nations," Minister of State for Media Affairs and Communication Nabil Sharif was quoted as saying by the official Petra news agency.

"In particular, the UN Security Council resolution 242 of 1967 and resolutions 476 and 478 of 1980 consider Israel's annexation of East Jerusalem null and void and call on Israel to end its occupation of East Jerusalem."

He said that remarks made Sunday by the Israeli government about Jerusalem were nothing more than "fallacies that negate the well- established legal and political realities" and place obstacles "in the path of peace and US efforts that seek to establish peace through the realization of the two-state vision."

Sharif was responding to Netanyahu's assertion during a cabinet meeting that Jerusalem would remain the undivided capital of Israel."

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[provis99]

1. well, since the West Bank is Jordanian territory,

Is Netanyahu trying to provoke a war with Jordan? Because that's the path he's going.

[Behind the Aegis]

2. The West Bank is NOT Jordanian territory.

[azurnoir]

4. Nor is the West Bank part of Israel n/t

[Behind the Aegis]

5. And, yet, I never made that claim.

Keep up.

[imdjh]

3. I think they already had that war, didn't they?

[ProgressiveProfessor]

6. Yep, Jordan lost

[LeftishBrit]

7. The West Bank hasn't been Jordanian territory since 67; and Jordan doesnt seem to much want it

It's been occupied by Israel since then, and hopefully that will also end and it will become part of an independent Palestinian state.

[GoesTo11]

8. Posturing

In the end, there will be an agreement where the Arab neighborhoods are under Arab control, the Jewish neighborhoods under Jewish control and there will be some international presence within the old city.

It's not like Jordan has much moral standing here. It was hardly a paragon of respect for Jewish holy sites and Jewish access to them when it controlled the Western Wall 1948-67.