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Israel Foreign Ministry Slams British Guardian for Insisting Tel Aviv Is Israel's Capital
(Times of Israel) Raphael Ahren - On Sunday, the London-based Guardian ran a correction of a photo caption it had run two days earlier that described Jerusalem as being Israel's capital. "The caption...wrongly referred to the city as the Israeli capital," the correction read. "The Guardian style guide states: 'Jerusalem is not the capital of Israel; Tel Aviv is.'" Israel Foreign Ministry deputy spokesperson Ilana Stein said: "When a claim is so factually wrong as to insult intelligence, then unfortunately the word 'lie' is not too harsh." "Jerusalem is Israel's capital by decision of the Knesset and nothing can change that," Foreign Ministry spokesman Yigal Palmor said last month. "Every country is entitled to choose its own capital and it is not for others to designate anyone else's capital."