Article: Tel Aviv and Jerusalem: a choice, of sorts.(Israel at 50)(Cover Story)(Brief Article)

EVERY so often the fact that Israel has put its parliament into disputed Jerusalem causes a new diplomatic row. Israelis are adamant that this beautiful, brooding city is their rightful capital, part of Israel's modern epic as well as its ancient one. Few Israelis have forgotten the Arab Legion's siege of the city during the state's war of independence. Lest they forget, the gutted and rusting hulks of home-made armoured cars, ambushed from the hills half a century ago as they strove to bring relief, still lie strewn at crazy angles beside the twisting road from Tel Aviv. In Jerusalem itself, on Ammunition Hill, across the road from blocks of new apartments built since the ...

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