Israeli ambassador criticises France over Arafat death certificate

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ISRAELI AMBASSADOR CRITICISES FRANCE OVER ARAFAT DEATH CERTIFICATE

MONTPELLIER, France, Nov 26 (AFP) - The Israeli ambassador has criticised the French government for issuing a death certificate for Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat stating his place of birth as Jerusalem.
"I cannot understand how the French government agreed to issue a death certificate based on false information," ambassador Nissim Zvili told a press conference in Montpellier.
Municipal officials at Clamart, the suburb of Paris where Arafat died on November 11, said they issued the document on the basis of a family record book itself issued by the French foreign ministry in 1996.
The issue is symbolically important because Israel considers Jerusalem as its eternal capital, while Palestinians want to make east Jerusalem, occupied by the Jewish state since 1967, the capital of their promised state.
Zvili was taking part in a round table discussion on Israel in Montpellier.
The Jewish community in France numbers around 700,000, the largest within the European Union.

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1. Oh my goodness!

They are arguing about where Arafat was born because Jerusalem is the eternal capital of Israel? By that are they implying that only Jews have lived there? So Muslims and Christians who have called that place home for years are really not there?

The best solution for this mess was proposed by Murshid Samuel L. Lewis, an American Sufi, who said that Jerusalem should be a free city, open to all faiths, ruled by an international coalition rather than one religious group or another.