07.19.2009 | Jerusalem Post
NEW YORK - Parents of a Jerusalem-born American boy who want “Israel” listed as their son’s country of birth on his passport have been dealt another blow with the dismissal of their case by a US court of appeals.
The US Court of Appeals in Washington, DC, on July 10 upheld a lower court’s decision that the courts lack jurisdiction in the matter because foreign policy - including the recognition of foreign governments - belongs exclusively in the domain of the executive branch. According to the State Department, US passports for those born in Jerusalem do not list a country because doing so would interfere with and pre-judge Israeli-Palestinian negotiations.
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No big deal. Eventually everyone will have to accept the reality that Jerusalem is Israel's capital- exclusively.
ReplyDeleteAri and Naomi Zivotofsky are justhelping law the groundwork.
Congress already passed a law recognizing Jerusalem as Israel's capital, and one day, there will be a President who won't veto it. We can wait.
Boy these people are a REAL pain in the ass. They will try anything to make a fantasy a reality, and will later jump on it as a precedent through an obscure legal recourse. When they do, their arguments for it just being a common matter will all be forgotten, as they try to legally race for the forbidden citadel.
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