At the heart of the conflict is a great paradox. It is both the simplest and the most complex conflict in the world. It is simple in its causes, complex in its resolution. Its cause? The Arabs do not accept the right of Israel to exist. Its resolution? No one knows.
So where does this leave Jerusalem? First, Jerusalem has been the capital of only one nation in the history of the world – Israel. Second, Jerusalem was, until 1948, a unified city, and remains so now. Its only period of division was 1949-1967. Third, none of the “two-state solution” proposals since 1967 have envisioned an Israel where Jerusalem is in no way identified as its capital.
The effort to efface the Jewish connection to Jerusalem has reached truly Orwellian depths, for it is nothing less than a denial of the undeniable.