What does the Israeli population think of a partition of Jerusalem?
I don’t think that there are popular movements against the partition of Jerusalem. Today, a majority of Israelis is ready for the creation of a Palestinian state on borders quite close to those of 1967. That’s what Clinton already proposed in 2000 at Camp David; that’s what was under negotiation in Taba in 2001 and what is still advocated by this government. The governmental coalition is still solid and even Avigdor Lieberman, from the extreme right party Yisrael Beiteinu, has asserted that he would not oppose Jerusalem’s partition under certain conditions. Of course, Likud will play its role as opposition by going against it. But there should not be a popular movement against it. We have to reset our clocks. Jerusalem is physically indivisible and the municipalities will have to share many services in common. Moreover, the division already exists de facto: East Jerusalem harbors a Palestinian population, West Jerusalem, an Israeli population. To give Palestinians legitimacy over the p
