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superchunk on 23 July 2008
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Aprisaiden said:
Well Jerusalem is a difficult one.

First it was a Jewish city.
Second it belonged to Christians.
Third the Muslims begin using it.
Forth everyone shared the city.
Fifth - both Muslims and Christians wanted control of the city...
Six - fades into history becomes a muslim city.
Seven - UN takes Jerusalem ohh the Muslims and gives it to the Jewish population as a part of the newly formed Israel.

The way i see it Jerusalem needs become like Vatican City -- its own state- its own country.

Ohh and redrawing the map was an awful idea --> it failed after WW1, and its failing again (just this week their have been 3 random attacks on Israel ... )

This history is so completely wrong.

Time frame for what is considered the old or eastern part of Jerusalem:
1. it was a Canaanite city.
2. it was conquered by early Israelites.(Jewish)
3. it was conquered by Babylonians.
4. it was returned to full Jewish control.
5. it was conquered by Romans, pre-christianity, yet primarily only Jewish residence.
6. it was vacated of most Jewish inhabitants and was purely a mixed city.
7. it was conquered by Arabs (Muslims). This happened around 700CE. Then inhabited by mostly by Jews smaller groups of Muslim and Christian Arabs.
8. in about a decade it switched to being predominantly Arab, mostly Muslim and smaller but almost equal groups of Arab Chrsitians and Jews.
9. it was conquered by Christian Europeans and reconquered by Arab Muslims. During these times the Christians and Muslims removed eachother from the city, with the exception that only the Christians removed jews as well and Muslims allowed Arab Christians to stay.
10. it was finally conquered by Arabs for the last time. From here until about 1949, the city was predominantly Arab (Muslim and Christian) and a decent group of Jews.
11. When the UN gave Jews control much of the Palestinian territory they only lived in the newer western part of the city. Not the original old city in the east.
12. Israel conqured the old city in the 6 day war in 1967.
13. Since then Israel has made numerous racist laws and forcefully evacuated many Arab home owners from the western part of Jerusalem. Most of whom had documents that go back 100's of years proving the land had always been under Arab ownership.

Since international law states that you cannot take land by means of war, the border should go back to 1967 boundries and the city should be split. Anything else is just not legal or morally right.