BBC: Jerusalem Does Not Exist


By Joel Leyden
Israel News Agency

Jerusalem, Israel --- July 24, 2012 ... For the last week, the BBC has been reporting that Israel has no capital.
As for the Palestinians, the BBC had East Jerusalem listed as their capital on their Olympics Website. Which brings us to the great BBC mystery. How is it that the Palestinians who have no government and never had a government have a capital?

And where did the city of Jerusalem disappear to?

If one looks very carefully under the Islamic Jihad propaganda rock, you might just find Jerusalem sitting there with millions of people. Residential and commercial buildings, temples, churches, mosques, schools, government buildings, parking lots, trees, squirrels, trains, an airport, shopping malls and parks.

All of it under the legal rule of the State of Israel.

Jerusalem has been the legal, historical, cultural and religious Capital of Israel for over 3,000 years.

Does anyone remember King David and his son Solomon who built the first Temple in 1010 B.C.E.?
Is there any mention of Palestinians? Or was that an invention created by Egyptian born Yasser Arafat in 1964?

Jerusalem has been the modern Capital of Israel since 1948. In 1980, the Israeli parliament passed its Basic Law, in which it reiterated the legal status of Jerusalem within Israeli jurisprudence as the undivided capital of Israel and the place of residence for Israeli governmental and other state institutions.

International law experts such as Steven Schwebel, Eli Lanterpacht or Yehuda Blum provide concrete legal arguments for Israel for her claims. Israel has much better claims to sovereignty over East Jerusalem, since the Six Day War that Israel won was a defensive war on her part and therefore the territories, which were acquired in this war, do not fall under the category of an unlawful occupation.

Jordan has rescinded its claims to the West Bank in the Peace Treaty of 1994 and therefore there is no other claimant who could outweigh Israeli claims to the city.

As for Palestinians, they have never in history formed a separate state and presented a sense of Palestinian nationhood and only recently did they claim Jerusalem for their capital, whereas Jews, since the establishment of the city by King David, did. Following those arguments, Israeli side claims that the status of Jerusalem is non-negotiable and Israel holds exclusive sovereignty over the city.

 

 

Jihad propaganda: there is no Israel.
Fact: Jerusalem is the capital of the only democracy in the Middle East.

Does BBC report fact or propaganda?

The BBC bias is nothing new to Israel. We truly don't expect anything objective from the BBC. But the real crime being perpetrated here is not so much one of legal and national pride as one of pure incitement.

What better propaganda tool can the BBC give to Islamic Jihad, Hamas, Hezbollah and Iran than to deny that Jerusalem is, has and will remain the capital of Israel?

The BBC is actually feeding fuel to real incitement against Israel, against Jews and Christians in a war of Islamic Jihad. We are talking terrorism and violence against the only democracy in the Middle East. Against all Western, democratic nations.

Lastly, if the BBC does not recognize Jerusalem as Israel's capital, then how can BBC producers, editors and reporters walk around with Israel Government Press Office cards that are issued in a nonexistent capital?

It seems to me that the GPO should suspend those Israeli Government Press cards as they simply do not exist!

 





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