Description
Jerusalem is much more referred to as a symbol and a claim than a precise geographic area. Even many locals – Palestinians and Israelis – do not know the extent of present-day Jerusalem or what part of it is relevant to the negotiations. Is it the 1947 corpus separatum, or West Jerusalem in its pre-1967 borders, or Jerusalem in Israel’s post-1967 unilaterally extended borders? And how and by whom were these different municipal boundaries drafted over time? This bulletin intends to answer those questions by explaining the development of Jerusalem’s geographic boundaries and what Jerusalem is currently being referred to. It also discusses the main approaches to Jerusalem that have been put for-ward in some of the key proposals since the time of the British Mandate period and describes the geo-political ramifications of the situation on the ground in Jerusalem today.
