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It has long been long-standing wisdom amongst reasonable people that any two-state solution between Palestinians and Israelis will mean a shared Jerusalem. What that will mean exactly is open to debate: either a West Jerusalem Israel and a East Jerusalem Palestine or a capital under shared sovereignty or a capital under an international mandate.
Either way Jerusalem as the beating heart of both people will need to accommodate claims by both sides in order for any peace deal to upheld by both sides and to be lasting.
The Palestinians will never accept any deal that excludes Jerusalem and Israel of course will never cease its commitment to the Holy City either. That is why only a shared city - in one form or other - must be negotiated and made to endure.
But the ruling far-right Likud coalition in Israel does not want to cede any part of Jerusalem to Palestinians. Instead it wants all of Jerusalem under exclusive Jewish sovereignty and is trying to ethnically cleanse the remaining 250,000 Palestinians in the city through home demolitions and illegal Jewish-only settlements in an effort to undermine Palestinian claims to the city by making it an exclusive Jewish city.
Israel's current government is stubborn in its refusal to even negotiate the status of Jerusalem. The dogmatic propagandist Benyamin Netanyahu dismisses Christian and Muslim claims to the city and says that Jerusalem only belongs to the Jews in a chauvinistic, ethnic supremacist and racist prose.
But the U.S. government is pressing Bibi to accept a shared city, that part of Jerusalem, Israel today will soon go to Palestine. And the U.S. offers a precedent:
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