Australia without consultation and while Jews was celebrating a religious holiday rescinded its recognition of West Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, gaining praise from despotic terrorist supporting states, supposedly to allow the matter to be settled between the Palestinians in the Israelis. This plays into the hands of terrorists. West Jerusalem has never been in dispute. It is the seat of the Israeli parliament and government. East Jerusalem, for thousands of years the Jewish quarter of the city, was invaded by Arabs and ethnically cleansed of the indigenous Jews in 1948, and was won back 19 years later when the Arabs invaded again. All peace offers over many years have been rejected by the Arabs, and this move supports those who want to invade and ethnically cleanse the rest of Israel. It also consolidates Australia’s anti-Semitism, which includes disallowing the building of synagogues, Jewish students at school being forced to lick the shoes of Moslem students and growing attacks on Jews. Hypocritically, while dictating to Israel where its capital should be, wants Israel to continue assisting it with intelligence and counter-terrorism. The Israeli government should downgrade co-operation with Australia.