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A Brief Lesson in the History of Jerusalem
(Israel Hayom) Nadav Shragai - While the United Kingdom continues to claim that east Jerusalem is "occupied territory," someone needs to, respectfully, give Prince William a lesson on the history of the city: In a nutshell, Islam, which demands Jerusalem and its holy sites, only showed up on the scene some 2,000 years after the people of Israel became a nation. The Palestinians, who demand east Jerusalem and the Old City as their future capital, only began to define themselves as a nation in the last century. Jerusalem has always been the capital of the Jewish people and Jewish consciousness and was never of similar importance to any kind of Arab or Islamic kingdom or state.