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Gershon Baskin appeals to Rabbi Marvin Hier
Gershon Baskin appeals to the dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center to work together to make a real positive contribution towards peace, understanding and real tolerance.
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Encountering Peace: 2 capitals for 2 states for 2 peoples
Not one country in the world recognizes our capital, Jerusalem, as the capital of Israel. Even the United States footnotes the following on the State Department Web page: Israel proclaimed Jerusalem as its capital in 1950. The US, like nearly all other countries, maintains its embassy in Tel Aviv. UN Security Council Resolution 478 declared the 1980 Jerusalem Law that declared Jerusalem to be Israel’s “eternal and indivisible” capital null and void, affirming that it was a violation of international law.