Submitted on Monday 28th November 2011
Published on Wednesday 30th November 2011
Current status: Closed
Closed: Friday 30th November 2012
Signatures: 43
Britain should move its embassy in Israel to the capital Jerusalem
Before 1967, Jews couldn't visit the holiest place in Judaism in Jerusalem, were expelled from the city, their holy places were desecrated, and the number of Christians fell by over half. Since Israel took control, Christians, Muslims and Jews all have full religious and cultural freedom in Jerusalem. Arabs inside the city’s municipal boundaries are offered Israeli citizenship.
Israel has upheld its moral and ethical obligations, earning the right of sovereignty over Jerusalem. Israel's decision, as a free and democratic nation, to designate a united and undivided Jerusalem as its capital, should be recognized by the entire international community.
The Palestinian call for Jerusalem as their capital breaks with the established pattern in the Islamic world where holy cities are NOT capital cities (e.g. Riyadh in Saudi Arabia – not Mecca/Medina; Baghdad in Iraq – not Najaf; Tehran in Iran not Qom/Isfahan).
Therefore Britain should move its embassy in Israel to Jerusalem.
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