AT THE UN, THE BATTLE FOR JERUSALEM IS ETERNALLY WAGED

At the United Nations, the diplomatic battle for a united Jerusalem is eternally waged on almost a monthly basis, whether it is in UN forums in Geneva, Paris or the UN headquarters in New York.

The guns of the Six Day War fell silent 52 years ago. The scars of a once divided city have been paved over, literally, with new roads and modern apartment buildings.

Most Israelis do not know where the borders stood from 1948 to 1967, when the eastern part of Jerusalem, including the Old City, was under Jordanian control.

But at the United Nations, the diplomatic battle for a united Jerusalem is eternally waged on almost a monthly basis, whether it is in UN forums in Geneva, in Paris or at the UN headquarters in New York.

This July, UNESCO’s World Heritage Committee is set to reaffirm, as it does every year, that the historical cradle of Judaism, where its most holy sites of the Temple Mount and the Western Wall are situated, is not part of sovereign Israel. Neither, for that matter according to the UN, is the Old City or any parts of Jerusalem that Israel wrested from Jordan in the 1967 Six Day War.

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AT THE UN, THE BATTLE FOR JERUSALEM IS ETERNALLY WAGED