Green-Lined: And where were you born?

As American citizens know, any children born in J'lem are not recognized by the US State Department as being born in Israel. Their birth certificates and passports, will list the "place of birth" as simply "Jerusalem", a seemingly stateless location.

By YISRAEL MEDAD
Green-lined 88 (photo credit: )
Green-lined 88
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And where were you born? The Jerusalem Post informed its readers on Tuesday that the US State Department considers Jewish neighborhoods in east Jerusalem as included in the US demand that Israel halt "settlement" construction, including for natural growth purposes as State Department spokesman Ian Kelly admitted. And that is an appropriate introduction for me to expand on a matter of State Dept. deviousness. As American citizens are aware, their children, if born in Jerusalem, whether west Jerusalem or east, are not recognized by the US State Department as being born in Israel. Their birth certificates and subsequently, their passports, will list the "place of birth" as simply "Jerusalem", a seemingly stateless location. Read the rest of this blog
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