{"id":289,"date":"2007-06-06T12:29:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-06T12:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/virtualtalmud\/2007\/06\/no-us-embassy-in-jerusalem-what-gives.html"},"modified":"2007-06-06T12:29:00","modified_gmt":"2007-06-06T12:29:00","slug":"no-us-embassy-in-jerusalem-what-gives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/virtualtalmud\/2007\/06\/no-us-embassy-in-jerusalem-what-gives.html","title":{"rendered":"No U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem. What Gives?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Forty years after the reunification of Jerusalem, the United States has still yet to move its embassy from Tel-Aviv. Of the 184 countries that the United States has embassies in, the only country where a U.S. embassy is not located in the country\u2019s designated capital is Israel.<\/p>\n<p>In 1995 Congress overwhelmingly passed the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jerusalem_Embassy_Act\">Jerusalem Embassy Act<\/a> which stipulated that the United States must recognize Jerusalem as Israel\u2019s capital and begin moving their embassy to the city. The embassy was supposed to be established no later than 1999. But that date, like so many other benchmarks in the Middle East, passed with little to show.  Each year the president postpones the move saying Congress&#8217; resolution was merely advisory and that ultimately all foreign relations issues rest with the president.<\/p>\n<p>What has been holding up the embassy move?  Jerusalem has been and continues to be one, if not the most, contested real estate in the world. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/blogs\/virtualtalmud\/2007\/06\/is-there-hope-for-city-of-peace_05.html\">As Rabbi Grossman correctly points out,<\/a> Jerusalem has rarely if ever been a &#8216;City of Peace,&#8217; as it means in Hebrew.<\/p>\n<p>The fact that America continues to prevent its embassy from moving to Jerusalem points to a far larger issue. Namely, the holiest city in the world is also the most dangerous city. The biggest loser in the continued battle over Jerusalem is Jerusalem itself: its heritage, its beauty, and its sacred messages. The continued fighting between Jews and Muslims makes Jerusalem into a war zone instead of the world\u2019s most sacred space. Any peace agreement between Israel and the Palestinians will more than likely have to include serious compromises on Jerusalem. Maybe one day Muslims and Jews will learn how to share that which is holy. Until then the world will continue to ignore Jerusalem.<\/p>\n<p><b>Read the Full Debate: Myth vs. Reality in Today&#8217;s Jerusalem<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/blogs\/virtualtalmud\/2007\/06\/is-there-hope-for-city-of-peace_05.html\">Rabbi Grossman: Is There Hope for The City of Peace?<\/a><\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forty years after the reunification of Jerusalem, the United States has still yet to move its embassy from Tel-Aviv. Of the 184 countries that the United States has embassies in, the only country where a U.S. embassy is not located in the country\u2019s designated capital is Israel. In 1995 Congress overwhelmingly passed the Jerusalem Embassy&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":102,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>No U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem. What Gives? - Virtual Talmud<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/virtualtalmud\/2007\/06\/no-us-embassy-in-jerusalem-what-gives.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"No U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem. What Gives? - Virtual Talmud\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Forty years after the reunification of Jerusalem, the United States has still yet to move its embassy from Tel-Aviv. Of the 184 countries that the United States has embassies in, the only country where a U.S. embassy is not located in the country\u2019s designated capital is Israel. In 1995 Congress overwhelmingly passed the Jerusalem Embassy&hellip;\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/virtualtalmud\/2007\/06\/no-us-embassy-in-jerusalem-what-gives.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Virtual Talmud\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2007-06-06T12:29:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Rabbi Eliyahu Stern\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"No U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem. What Gives? - Virtual Talmud","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/virtualtalmud\/2007\/06\/no-us-embassy-in-jerusalem-what-gives.html","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"No U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem. What Gives? - Virtual Talmud","og_description":"Forty years after the reunification of Jerusalem, the United States has still yet to move its embassy from Tel-Aviv. Of the 184 countries that the United States has embassies in, the only country where a U.S. embassy is not located in the country\u2019s designated capital is Israel. In 1995 Congress overwhelmingly passed the Jerusalem Embassy&hellip;","og_url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/virtualtalmud\/2007\/06\/no-us-embassy-in-jerusalem-what-gives.html","og_site_name":"Virtual Talmud","article_published_time":"2007-06-06T12:29:00+00:00","author":"Rabbi Eliyahu Stern","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/virtualtalmud\/2007\/06\/no-us-embassy-in-jerusalem-what-gives.html","url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/virtualtalmud\/2007\/06\/no-us-embassy-in-jerusalem-what-gives.html","name":"No U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem. What Gives? - Virtual Talmud","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/virtualtalmud\/#website"},"datePublished":"2007-06-06T12:29:00+00:00","dateModified":"2007-06-06T12:29:00+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/virtualtalmud\/#\/schema\/person\/53c806e36632262087fa251c621f2bc9"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/virtualtalmud\/2007\/06\/no-us-embassy-in-jerusalem-what-gives.html#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/virtualtalmud\/2007\/06\/no-us-embassy-in-jerusalem-what-gives.html"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/virtualtalmud\/2007\/06\/no-us-embassy-in-jerusalem-what-gives.html#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/virtualtalmud"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"No U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem. What Gives?"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/virtualtalmud\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/virtualtalmud\/","name":"Virtual Talmud","description":"Rabbi Brad Hirschfield, where politics and pop culture meet 3,000 years of Jewish wisdom","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/virtualtalmud\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/virtualtalmud\/#\/schema\/person\/53c806e36632262087fa251c621f2bc9","name":"Rabbi Eliyahu Stern","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/virtualtalmud\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/virtualtalmud\/wp-content\/wphb-cache\/gravatar\/417\/4170a8452a509d8efe19496bf5d566e9x96.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/virtualtalmud\/wp-content\/wphb-cache\/gravatar\/417\/4170a8452a509d8efe19496bf5d566e9x96.jpg","caption":"Rabbi Eliyahu Stern"},"url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/virtualtalmud\/author\/estern"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/virtualtalmud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/virtualtalmud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/virtualtalmud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/virtualtalmud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/102"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/virtualtalmud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/virtualtalmud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/virtualtalmud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/virtualtalmud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/virtualtalmud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}