Israel's foreign ministry said Tuesday that a Swedish-led push for the European Union to call for the division of Jerusalem and the recognition of East Jerusalem as the capital of a Palestinian state would trip up Europe's own efforts to play a role in Middle East peacemaking.
http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/1201/p06s05-wome.html
As I read reports about the Swedish plan and the EU draft to divide Jerusalem, I was reminded of the story of King Solomon where he is asked to judge who is the real mother of the baby that two women claimed as their own.
"He declares that there is only one fair solution: the live son must be split in two, each woman receiving half of the child. Upon hearing this terrible verdict, the boy's true mother cries out, "Please, My Lord, give her the live child—do not kill him!" However, the liar, in her bitter jealousy, exclaims, "It shall be neither mine nor yours—divide it!" Solomon instantly gives the live baby to the real mother, realizing that the true mother's instincts were to protect her child, while the liar revealed that she did not truly love the child."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judgment_of_Solomon
With most countries prepared to accept a two state solution, Israel and its people stand out in the cry for a unified Jerusalem, the mother who refuses to cut up the baby in two. Isn't that the true indicator to whom the city belongs?
Yerushalayim - ir shalem, the city of peace, a city of completeness.
The Psalmist in chapter 122 verse 3 states, "The built-up Jerusalem is like a city that is united together."
"Jerusalem will remain the capital of Israel and it must remain undivided."
President Obama
(Just watch the first 12 seconds of the video below, again and again.)
So said the Lord, your Redeemer, and the One Who formed you from the womb, "I am the Lord Who makes everything, Who stretched forth the heavens alone, Who spread out the earth from My power. Who frustrates the signs of imposters, and diviners He makes mad; He turns the wise backwards, and makes their knowledge foolish. He fulfills the word of His servant, and the counsel of His messenger He completes; Who says of Jerusalem, "It shall be settled," and of the cities of Judah, "They shall be built, and its ruins I will erect." (Yeshayahu 44)
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