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Related: About this forumHow American Jewish leaders Are Undermining Two-State Solution - Via Jerusalem
Considering the U.S. sees East Jerusalem as the future capital of a Palestinian state within the framework of any viable two-state solution, mainstream American Jewish leaders insistence that Israel should be listed as the birthplace in Jerusalem-born American citizens passports undermines U.S. foreign policy and the two-state solution.This article was originally published in The Daily Beasts Open Zion on Friday July 26, 2013.
On Tuesday, a U.S. federal appeals court ruled that Americans born in Jerusalem cannot list Israel as their birthplace on their U.S. passports, in accordance with long-standing U.S. policy. The reason the judges provided is that doing so would infringe on the presidents exercise of power regarding recognition of foreign governments which has since 1948 meant a refusal to recognize Israel or any countrys sovereignty over Jerusalem, since its final status must be determined in negotiations. The court decision concludes a case originally opened in 2003 by parents of a Jerusalem-born American Jewish boy, Menachem Zivotofsky, who requested to list Israel as the birthplace on his U.S. passport.
American Jewish groups were quick to condemn the decision, insisting that Jerusalem is the capital of Israel, and calling on the Supreme Court to reverse the decision and maintain that Americans should have the right to list Israel as their birthplace, and not just Jerusalem. The chairman of the Jewish Federations of North America issued a statement that the decision leaves 50,000 Americans without an official birth country.
In an op-ed in Haaretz, the Anti-Defamation Leagues Abraham Foxman goes so far as to call the ruling discriminatory, saying it deprives Americans of their civil right to identify themselves on their passports as they wish. He asks how it is that the issue has become so political, and insists it should not be a question of technicalities or legalities or separation of powers. It should be a question of sensible public policy recognition of the special relationship between the U.S. and Israel.
Apparently Foxman is unaware, or chooses to ignore, that Jerusalem is in fact quite a political issue, one of the thorniest in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The fact that no country in the world will house its embassy in Jerusalem, because nobody except Israel formally recognizes Jerusalem as that countrys capital, doesnt seem to register with him. Neither does the fact that the Palestinian residents of the city are citizens of nowhere, subject to an Israeli government they cannot elect and devoid of the luxury to choose which country to list as their birthplace. Foxman also doesnt seem aware that Palestinian residents of Jerusalem who become American citizens (or spend enough years out of Jerusalem) are stripped of their residency, leaving their freedom to enter the very place they were born to the whims of the Israeli authorities.
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How American Jewish leaders Are Undermining Two-State Solution - Via Jerusalem (Original Post)
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dipsydoodle
(42,239 posts)1. I'm sure Foxman is aware
how Paelstinian residents of Jerusalem are affected. He choses to downplay that aspect.
The man is delusional.
oberliner
(58,724 posts)2. Do the 972maggers like the two state solution or do they not like it?
It's hard to keep track.
Israeli
(4,159 posts)4. no it is not ....
aranthus
(3,385 posts)5. They like when they can beat Israel with it.
As in it's Israel's fault that the two state solution is dead (hooray!)
oberliner
(58,724 posts)6. I think you hit it on the head
Well put.
azurnoir
(45,850 posts)3. So Foxman expects the American government to opperate according to Israel's interests
as opposed to its own law, it could seem that way or perhaps he just doesn't understand that there are 3 branches of government for a reason