An urban legend has it that, upon the de facto annexation of East Jerusalem in 1967, the State of Israel offered the city's Palestinian residents as a group Israeli citizenship and they rejected it. Though it's an interesting legend, there isn't a shred of truth to it. The state applied Israeli law, judicial powers and governance to East Jerusalem less than two weeks after it was conquered. And to the...
- By The greater Question
- 06 Nov 2012
- 06:08AM
What about the Jewish property and buildings, residential, commercial and synagogues, that the Palestinian Arabs took over when Jordan took over most of Jerusalem, the rest of what what supposed to be the international zone and the land assigned to a new Palestinian state, annexed it to Jordan and expelled all the Jews from their captured territory? The capture, then annexation of most of Jerusalem and what the Jordanians renamed the West Bank by Jordan seems to have been conveniently forgotten by everyone. The area was totally controlled by Jordan as Gaza was by its captor, Egypt, from 1949 until after the 1968 war when control was recognized in Israel. The question must be: Why Palestine didn't come into any formal existence when their was no Israeli control or even influence? Palestinians seemed to abdicate their inherent national identity when they were safely in the Arab arms.
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