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Originally Posted by El Predicador
Israel says no. Obama wants to force them. And having even half of Jerusalem as the capital of a Palestinian state (which would have to be craved in the middle of Israel) would be a death warrant for Israel. It would become indefensible.
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He's trying to coerce Israel, not force Israel-- no where near sanctions or anything like that.
The problem lies in the fact that the international community never recognized that specific part of Jerusalem as a place where Israel would sole control.
Israel took that part of Jerusalem by force in 1967-- not much different to what just almost happened between Russia and Georgia not that long ago.
That is this so sticky.
Apparently, Arabs have made up the majority of this part of Jerusalem for quite sometime. Israel did not drive out the Arabs living there, they just took control of the area and claimed it as theirs.
It has only become recent (within the last several years or so) that it has become an "issue" as Israeli's have been using the Israeli court system to "evict" the Arabs that have been living there.
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