Jerusalem

===International status===
While the international community regards East Jerusalem, including the entire Old City, as part of the [[occupied Palestinian territories]], neither part, West or East Jerusalem, is recognized as part of the territory of Israel or the [[State of Palestine]].<ref>[https://berkleycenter.georgetown.edu/essays/the-controversial-sovereignty-over-the-city-of-jerusalem The Controversial Sovereignty over the City of Jerusalem (22 June 2015, The National Catholic Reporter)] {{Webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181121191334/https://berkleycenter.georgetown.edu/essays/the-controversial-sovereignty-over-the-city-of-jerusalem |date=21 November 2018 }} "No U.S. president has ever officially acknowledged Israeli sovereignty over any part of Jerusalem (...) The refusal to recognize Jerusalem as Israeli territory is a near universal policy among Western nations."</ref><ref>[https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-42218042 Jerusalem: Opposition to mooted Trump Israel announcement grows] {{Webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190806054724/https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-42218042 |date=6 August 2019 }}"Israeli sovereignty over Jerusalem has never been recognised internationally"</ref><ref>Whither Jerusalem (Lapidot) page 17: "Israeli control in west Jerusalem since 1948 was illegal and most states have not recognized its sovereignty there"</ref><ref>The [[Jerusalem Law]] states that "Jerusalem, complete and united, is the capital of Israel" and the city serves as the seat of the government, home to the President's residence, government offices, supreme court, and [[Knesset|parliament]]. [[United Nations Security Council Resolution 478]] (20 August 1980; 14–0, U.S. abstaining) declared the Jerusalem Law "null and void" and called on member states to withdraw their diplomatic missions from Jerusalem (see {{Harvard citation no brackets|Kellerman|1993|p=140}}). See [[Status of Jerusalem]] for more information.</ref> Under the [[United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine]] adopted by the [[General Assembly of the United Nations]] in 1947, Jerusalem was envisaged to become a [[corpus separatum (Jerusalem)|corpus separatum]] administered by the United Nations. In the war of 1948, the western part of the city was occupied by forces of the nascent state of Israel, while the eastern part was occupied by Jordan. The international community largely considers the legal status of Jerusalem to derive from the partition plan, and correspondingly refuses to recognize Israeli sovereignty over the city.<ref>"UN General Assembly Resolution 181 recommended the creation of an international zonea, or&nbsp;corpus separatum, in Jerusalem to be administered by the UN for a 10-year period, after which there would be referendum to determine its future.&nbsp;This approach applies equally to West and East Jerusalem and is not affected by the occupation of East jerusalem in 1967.&nbsp;To a large extent it is this approach that still guides the diplomatic behaviour of states and thus has greater force in international law" (Susan M. Akram, Michael Dumper, Michael Lynk, Iain Scobbie (eds.),&nbsp;International Law and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: A Rights-Based Approach to Middle East Peace,&nbsp;Routledge, 2010 p.119. )</ref>