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(IsraelNN.com) The non-profit Jerusalem Institute for Israel
Studies has issued a study recommending that Jerusalem's
holy sites be administered by an international body. The
study likely will be presented at the annual Herzliya
conference schedule to start this Saturday.
The center's research concluded that the "lack of trust
between Israel and the Palestinian Authority" supports
turning the authority over to an international committee to
preserve holy sites. Jordan closed off non-Moslem sites
during its occupation of the eastern part of the city. Israel reopened
up Christian and Jewish sites to visitors after Jordan
retreated during the Six-Day War in 1967 and Israel reunited
the capital.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/672148.html
Temple Mount yes, Mount Sinai no; Dr. David Jaeger, the
Vatican's legal advisor in negotiations with Israel,
presented an interesting fact pertaining to the status of holy
sites: According to the United Nations resolution on
November 29, 1947, Jerusalem is considered a "corpus
separatum" that belongs neither to the Jewish or Palestinian
state. Therefore, the Jordanian occupation of Jerusalem after
the Israeli War of Independence was considered, like the
Israeli occupation after the Six-Day War, to be "illegal."
As far as international law is concerned, the status of
Jerusalem has not changed since 1947, and, therefore,
according to Jaeger, Israel and the Palestinian Authority
cannot achieve a bilateral agreement concerning the
status of Jerusalem. Israel cannot "give" the Old City to
the PA because, according to international law, Israel
does not have legal authority over Jerusalem.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3194646,00.html
http://www.arutzsheva.net/news.php3?id=95967
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