Yerusalem Barat

Koordinat: 31°46′55″N 35°13′10″E / 31.78194°N 35.21944°E / 31.78194; 35.21944

Yerusalem Barat adalah bagian Yerusalem yang tetap berada di bawah kendali Israel setelah Perang Arab-Israel 1948, yang garis gencatan senjatanya membatasi perbatasan dengan seluruh kota, yang kemudian di bawah kendali Yordania.^[1] Sejumlah negara barat seperti Inggris mengakui secara de facto otoritas Israel, tetapi menahan pengakuan de jure.^[2][3] Klaim kedaulatan Israel atas Yerusalem Barat lebih diterima secara luas daripada klaimnya atas Yerusalem Timur.^[4]

1. ^ "Key Maps". Jerusalem: Before 1967 and now. BBC News. Diakses tanggal 26 April 2013. 
2. ^ Dumper, Michael (1997). The politics of Jerusalem since 1967. Columbia University Press. hlm. 35–36. ISBN 978-0231106405. 
3. ^ Moshe Hirsch; Deborah Housen-Couriel; Ruth Lapidot (28 June 1995). Whither Jerusalem?: Proposals and Positions Concerning the Future of Jerusalem. Martinus Nijhoff Publishers. hlm. 15. ISBN 978-90-411-0077-1. What, then, is Israel's status in west Jerusalem? Two main answers have been adduced: (a) Israel has sovereignty in this area; and (b) sovereignty lies with the Palestinian people or is suspended. 
4. ^ Bisharat, George (23 December 2010). "Maximizing Rights". Dalam Susan M. Akram; Michael Dumper; Michael Lynk. International Law and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: A Rights-Based Approach to Middle East Peace. Routledge. hlm. 311. ISBN 978-1-136-85098-1. As we have noted previously the international legal status of Jerusalem is contested and Israel’s designation of it as its capital has not been recognized by the international community. However its claims of sovereign rights to the city are stronger with respect to West Jerusalem than with respect to East Jerusalem.