Vote seen as a victory for US President Obama who claims that law would set a precedent harming his ability to set foreign policy.
"Let them all be confounded and turned back that hate Zion." Psalm 129:5 (KJV)
The word Jerusalem appears 811 times in the pages of the King James Bible.Book after book of the Bible that were written thousands of years ago attest to the fact that the God of Abraham gave Jerusalem to His people, the Jews. To say that Jerusalem is not the capital of Israel is to call God a liar. Which, of course, is exactly what Obama is doing with this latest ruling.
The US Supreme Court has struck down a disputed law that would have allowed Americans born in Jerusalem to list their birthplace as Israel on their US passports. It's an important ruling that underscores the president's authority in foreign affairs.
The court ruled 6-3 Monday that Congress overstepped its bounds when it approved the law in 2002. It would have forced the State Department to alter its long-standing policy of not listing Israel as the birthplace for Jerusalem-born Americans.
The policy is part of the government's refusal to recognize any nation's sovereignty over Jerusalem, until Israelis and Palestinians resolve its status through negotiations. The ruling ends a 12-year-old
lawsuit by a Jerusalem-born American and his US citizen parents.
The case was instigated by the parents of Jerusalem-born US Citizen Menachem Zivotofsky because they want his passport to state that he was born in Israel. Ari and Naomi Zivotofsky sued on behalf of their then-baby son in 2003.
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