<\/a>AP Photo\/Carolyn Kaster<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>Can an American citizen list Israel as their \u00a0place of birth, instead \u00a0of \u00a0Jerusalem? That\u2019s what the \u00a0Supreme Court is going to decide next year. A 12 year old \u00a0boy sued the US \u00a0government to allow the designation on his passport.<\/p>\nIt\u2019s a big \u00a0deal. 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Can an American citizen list Israel as their \u00a0place of birth, instead \u00a0of \u00a0Jerusalem? That\u2019s what the \u00a0Supreme Court is going to decide next year. A 12 year old \u00a0boy sued the US \u00a0government to allow the designation on his passport.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s a big \u00a0deal. 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N<\/a>PR notes that<\/a> \u201cIsrael considers Jerusalem its eternal capital and has controlled the city in its entirety since the 1967 Arab-Israeli war, which saw Israel also seize the Gaza Strip and the West Bank.\u201d<\/p>\nThe Untied \u00a0States does \u00a0not \u00a0recognize Jerusalem as the capital \u00a0of Israel but many members \u00a0of Congress \u00a0do \u00a0and in 2002 passed a law allowing \u201cJerusalem-born applicants for U.S. passports to record their place of birth as \u201cIsrael\u201d if they so request.\u201d<\/p>\nPresident Bush signed the law but according to the New York Time<\/a>s he said that\u00a0\u00a0said that \u201che would not follow the Jerusalem provision because it \u00a0\u2018impermissibly interferes with the president\u2019s constitutional authority to conduct the nation\u2019s foreign affairs.\u2019<\/p>\nThat \u00a0law is now \u00a0part of \u00a0the \u00a0case before \u00a0the \u00a0Supreme Court.<\/p>\nHere is a review of the facts from NPR.<\/p>\n\n<\/embed><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Can an American citizen list Israel as their \u00a0place of birth, instead \u00a0of \u00a0Jerusalem? 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The Untied \u00a0States does \u00a0not \u00a0recognize Jerusalem as the capital \u00a0of Israel but many members \u00a0of Congress \u00a0do \u00a0and in 2002 passed a law allowing \u201cJerusalem-born applicants for U.S. passports to record their place of birth as \u201cIsrael\u201d if they so request.\u201d<\/p>\n
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That \u00a0law is now \u00a0part of \u00a0the \u00a0case before \u00a0the \u00a0Supreme Court.<\/p>\n
Here is a review of the facts from NPR.<\/p>\n
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