(Spectator-UK) Stephen Daisley - The British Embassy is currently situated in Tel Aviv, despite Israel's capital being Jerusalem. The international community has danced along for decades, refraining from acknowledgement of Israel's capital in the hopes it would encourage the Palestinians to the negotiating table. The U.S. has formally recognized Jerusalem as Israel's capital and moved its embassy there, as have Taiwan, Nauru, Honduras, Guatemala, and Kosovo. Russia and Australia have both recognized West Jerusalem as the capital. It is cowardly and absurd for the UK to pretend not to know where Israel's capital city is based. This is a friendly country with whom we already have a 5 billion pound trading relationship, are currently negotiating a free trade agreement, and which supplies us with intelligence to foil terror plots on UK soil. Israeli sovereignty over a united Jerusalem has brought stability, prosperity and religious liberty for Jews, Muslims and Christians, a trifecta achieved by no other state or occupying power in modern history.
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