(AP)At a planned speech on Wednesday, President Donald Trump recognised Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. But in June 1967, during the Six-Day Arab-Israel War, Israel snatched East Jerusalem from Jordanian forces, and Israel’s Parliament declared the territory had been “annexed to Israel” and Jerusalem had been “reunited”. This marginalised the Palestinians, who wanted East Jerusalem to be their capital under the “two-state solution”. Despite Israel’s hold over its “united and eternal capital”, in December 2016, the UN reaffirmed that Jerusalem’s Palestinian territories were under “hostile occupation”. Back in 1995, when Bill Clinton was President, Congress passed the Jerusalem Embassy Act, recognising the city as Israel’s capital.

Source: Indian Express December 06, 2017 19:10 UTC