For too long, claims the New York Sun, the U.S. government—and the State Department in particular—has undermined its own efforts at peacemaking by treating the status of Jerusalem as an open question. The Sun’s editors write:
For a generation now we have been describing the escalating struggle over Israel’s capital as the Battle of Jerusalem. This is the campaign to wrest Judaism’s holiest city from Israel’s sovereignty. It has been the strategy of the so-called peace process to defer Jerusalem, the knottiest question, to the end of the negotiations. . . . This sets up the entire peace process for perpetual failure, because Israel’s sovereignty over Jerusalem is not subject to negotiation. It strikes us that an honest approach to peace would require an acknowledgement of this at the beginning rather than the end of talks.
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