Rewriting the History of Jerusalem

"This week in Paris, the executive board of Unesco, the United Nations entity charged with looking after matters related to education, science and culture, will vote on a resolution called 'Occupied Palestine,' which attempts to redefine the capital of Israel as a supranational city to which Muslims, Christians and Jews have equal claim.

Perhaps not coincidentally, an exhibition currently at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City makes the same case. For the sake of Jerusalem, both need to be exposed as the attempts at historical revisionism that they are...

True progress for the city will come only when we confront our own reality, the good as well as the bad, in which Jerusalem is the capital of Israel."