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Bookmark or Share- Jerusalem in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict: Whose capital ...Some proponents of a two-state solution have proposed splitting the city in two: it was divided after the first Arab-Israeli war (1948–49) into a western portion under Israeli rule, called Jerusalem, and an eastern portion under Arab rule, called East Jerusalem.
- What's the Israel-Palestinian conflict about and how did it ...Israel has occupied the West Bank, Arab East Jerusalem, which it captured from Jordan, and Syria's Golan Heights ever since.
- East Jerusalem - WikipediaEast Jerusalem (Arabic: القدس الشرقية, al-Quds ash-Sharqiya; Hebrew: מִזְרַח יְרוּשָׁלַיִם, Mizraḥ Yerushalayim) is the portion of Jerusalem that was held by Jordan after the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, as opposed to West Jerusalem, which was held by Israel.
- What is East Jerusalem? Historical BackgroundIn 1948, when the first war between Jews and Arabs erupted, Jerusalem was one of the main battlefields. The city had the largest amount of Jews in the country, 100,000 out of 600,000 in the whole...
- Israeli annexation of East Jerusalem - WikipediaIsrael occupied East Jerusalem during the 1967 Six-Day War; since then, the entire city has been under Israeli control. In Israel, the reunification of Jerusalem is commemorated as Jerusalem Day, an annual holiday. In July 1980, the Knesset passed the Jerusalem Law as part of the country's Basic Law, which declared unified Jerusalem the capital ...
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