Wednesday, November 5, 2014

Here is apparently a very minor item of legality, but . . .

Can a city of one's birth be cited in one's passport as its country:
The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments on a 2002 law that would let Americans born in Jerusalem list the birthplace on their U.S. passports as "Israel." The Obama administration opposes the law, saying it would threaten its decision not to take a stance on Jerusalem’s status. Passports of U.S. citizens born in Jerusalem currently list only the city, not a country, but the parents of a 12-year-old boy born in Jerusalem want the Supreme Court to change that. While Israel has occupied East Jerusalem since 1967, Palestinians claim it as the capital of any future Palestinian state. The court hearing came as Israel advanced plans to build 500 new illegal settlement homes in East Jerusalem.

The Palestinians have live in Palestine from 1169. The State of Israel was created in 1948.
For this and after many wars, Jerusalem is a severely contested city between the Palestinian and all the white blond haired and blue eyed Zionists who have emigrated from Europe and USA to these lands..
If the US Supreme Court rules in favour of the plaintiff in this case, it would set an incredible precedent that every locale in the state of Israel can can be declared to be Israel.

If there is to be ever a settlement of the problem that Israel has with the Palestinians such a determination by the US Supreme Court in favour of this plaintiff would bias everything in favour of  Israel.
Such an argument would work the other way. If the Palestinians could argue that Tel Aviv was once Palestine, and by law it still is, then every locale in Israel today can also be named Palestine. If so, then in any settlement of the problems that Israel has had all this time with the Palestinians would favour the Palestinians claims.



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