>On Tue, May 07, 2002 at 10:01:44AM +0200, Halupovich Ilana wrote: > >> How can there be *any* question? Jerusalem is capital city of Israel. > >I'm confused. I thought Tel Aviv was capital?
According to the U.S. government, Tel Aviv is the capital. The U.S. government says this so that at some future time it can use its recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital as a carrot to induce Israel to make some other concession on something. This is one of those clever ideas that turns out to not be so clever... Brad DeLong
