Aside: It's funny the article says Tel Aviv submitted the requests, when the office is in Jerusalem http://www.justice.gov.il/ContactUs/Pages/default.aspx. Subtle.
In fact this isn’t even a reference to the capital but how the Arab media refers to Israel in order not to recognize it.
I can guarantee to you that the original quote was “Israel or The Israeli government has submitted...”
AJ is just doing their creative editing.
I wonder if they’ll publish the posts again last time it had nothing to do with human rights unless the right to stab people is a human right now.
Can we please not post that nonsense here? I expect it in some of the stupider social networks (which tend to draw a certain kind of poster), but seeing that here is surprising.
Other countries do not get to tell a county where its capital is.
What exactly makes Tel Aviv the capital anyway? There's no seat of government there, nothing. Did they just randomly pick a large city?
Can you please not post nonsense here. Tel Aviv IS the internationally accepted capital of Israel, period. It's a fact you might like or not, but it remains a fact.
All the world's embassies are in Tel Aviv, not Jerusalem.
All International agreements are under signed as Jerusalem, anytime there is a foreign visit they go to Jerusalem, even Sadat when he came to visit Israel during the peace process went to the Knesset in Jerusalem to give his speech.
The US embassy and many others in the Netherlands are in The Hague it doesn’t make it the capital of the Netherlands. International recognition isn’t what defines a capital city so while most nations won’t publicaly say its Jerusalem not a single one would say it’s Tel Aviv they would simply refuse to answer.
You would think this kind of thing would be limited to fringe websites, and Arab sites.
> Tel Aviv IS the internationally accepted capital of Israel, period.
There is no such concept. Since when does the international anything "accept" a capital? As if the decision was given to them!
> It's a fact
You don't know what a fact is.
> All the world's embassies are in Tel Aviv, not Jerusalem.
That doesn't make it a capitol. It just means ambassadors have extra travel to do to get to the actual seat of government.