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US Opening Jerusalem Embassy on Territorial Anomaly

by Michael Lipin

   The Jerusalem no man's land where the U.S. says part of its new embassy
   to Israel will be located is a territorial quirk of the Arab-Israeli
   conflict, a quirk that originated at the start of hostilities in 1948.

   The U.S. will inaugurate the embassy Monday in an existing consular
   complex at the southwestern corner of a no man's land that appears as a
   five-sided box on contemporary U.S. government and Google maps of
   Jerusalem. That zone first appeared on a map in a much smaller form in
   May 1948.

   At its heart is a compound known as Government House, built in 1933 on
   a strategic hilltop to serve as the headquarters of the British High
   Commissioner who ruled the then-British Mandate of Palestine.

   Michael covers international news for VOA on the web, radio and TV,
   specializing in the Middle East and East Asia Pacific. Follow him on
   Twitter [1]@Michael_Lipin

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