The Palestinian constitution says Palestine is Islamic and Arab, Jerusalem its capital, Arabic its official language. No one cares. ~ Elder Of Ziyon – Israel News
— Read on elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2018/07/the-palestinian-constitution-says.html
Humorous. I’ve read the Basic Law passed in Israel. It’s mostly ‘basic’ stuff. The big oddity is that Arabic is treated in two ways, one apparently to appease those who want Hebrew to be the only official language, and then a statement that says the status of Arabic hasn’t changed, apparently to make sure the appeasement is only superficial. They say a unified Jerusalem is the capital. I don’t see why that means it can’t also be the capital of Palestine but the law is just a law and can be changed by a vote. (And Palestine claims all Jerusalem, as the link makes clear.) There’s a big fight over the sentence regarding ‘Jewish settlement’ but the line doesn’t say what ‘Jewish settlement’ means. It could be another way of saying ‘ingathering’. But pretty much anything having to do with Israel or with Jews becomes a bigger story than it should be.
jomi: playing with perception 