US invalidates law that allows US citizens born from listing Jerusalem as city of birth
I have no idea what the significance of this is, but I know there has to be something there, I can feel it! Let me know if anything comes to mind! Maybe it is intended to stir up the Jewish people in the US? Or further isolate Israel? Or maybe to make it necessary for Obama to butt his nose in and declare who Jerusalem belongs to?
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Palestinians walk amongst parasols placed outside the Dome of the Rock on the compound know to Muslims ….By David Ingram
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A federal appeals court on Tuesday invalidated a U.S. law that was designed to allow American citizens born in Jerusalem to have Israel listed as their birthplace on passports.
The unanimous ruling by the three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit upholds a long-standing U.S. foreign policy that the president - and not lawmakers - have sole authority to say who controls the historic holy city claimed by Israelis and Palestinians.
In the U.S. government, the president "exclusively holds the power to determine whether to recognize a foreign sovereign," wrote Judge Karen Henderson for the panel.
Since the founding of Israel in 1948, U.S. presidents have declined to state a position on the status of Jerusalem, leaving it as one of the thorniest issues to be resolved in possible future peace talks.
The State Department, which issues passports and reports to the president, has declined to enforce the law passed by Congress in 2002, saying it violated the separation of executive and legislative powers laid out in the U.S. Constitution.
When President George W. Bush signed the law, he said that if construed as mandatory rather than advisory, it would "impermissibly interfere" with the president's authority to speak for the country in international affairs.
Ari and Naomi Zivotofsky, whose son Menachem was born in Jerusalem and is a U.S. citizen, filed a lawsuit in 2003 demanding that the government enforce the law. Menachem's passport lists the city of birth as Jerusalem and does not mention a country.
The issue reached the U.S. Supreme Court last year on the preliminary question of whether it was so political that it did not belong in the courts. The high court ruled 8-1 that the case could proceed, setting up Tuesday's ruling.
The Zivotofskys plan to ask the high court's opinion again, their lawyer, Nathan Lewin, said on Tuesday.
"Today's majority and concurring decisions acknowledge that the constitutional issue presented by this case is significant and calls for resolution by the Supreme Court," Lewin said in a statement.
An estimated 50,000 American citizens were born in Jerusalem and could have used the law, if it were enforced, to list Israel as their birthplace.
While Israel calls Jerusalem its eternal and indivisible capital, few other countries accept that status. Most, including the United States, maintain their embassies to Israel in Tel Aviv.
Palestinians want East Jerusalem, captured by Israel in 1967, as capital of the state they aim to establish in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, alongside Israel.
Re: US invalidates law that allows US citizens born from listing Jerusalem as city of birth
This is outrageous! Maybe a combination of the reasons you mentioned, or to get the Jews in the U.S to leave here and return to Israel? I mean, that's prophetic too as far as the Lord calling the true Jews back to their homeland.
