Knesset will discuss a draft law making Jerusalem the “capital of Jewish people”

(Ahlul Bayt News Agency) - The Knesset will discuss on Sunday a draft law which considers Jerusalem as the “capital of Israel” and the capital of the “Jewish people” at the same time.Ahmad Laban, specialist in settlement affairs and member of Field Researchers Association in Jerusalem said in a statement on Friday that this law was previously tabled at a previous Knesset by four MKs and former MKs; Zevulun Orlev, Esterina Tartman, Arieh Eldad and Eliyahu Gabai. At the current Knesset the same draft law has been tabled by  Arieh Eldad.The law stresses the centrality of Jerusalem to the Israeli occupation and the Jewish people and aims to consolidate Zionist control over both east and west Jerusalem on the pretext of "united" Jerusalem being the capital of the Zionist entity and the Jewish people. Support by ruling right for the draft law  which was tabled by opposition right will be discussed at the Knesset on Sunday.A law was passed in the Knesset in 1980 which considered Jerusalem to be the capital of the "state of Israel".The Field Researchers Association warned that this new law is part of the measures and practices taken by the occupation to try and obliterate any the Islamic, Arab and Palestinian character of the city and fake a Jewish identity to the holy city./129