One Jerusalem is an international, U.S. based educational foundation that operates around the world to educate children and adults about the importance of Jerusalem remaining the united and undivided capital of the State of Israel.

Its founders include Natan Sharansky, Benjamin Netanyahu, Ron Silver, David Horowitz, Dore Gold, Joel Rosenberg and tens of thousands of (principally) Christians and Jews throughout the world.

They never left. There has been a Jewish presence in Jerusalem since King David established the city as Israel’s capital 3,000 years ago. Even when most Jews were forced out of their homeland, when most of them were forcibly dispersed, Jerusalem continued to harbor a small Jewish community centered around the holy sites, and Jews around the world continued to place Jerusalem at the center of their spiritual lives. Everywhere in the world, from India to Medieval Europe, Jews prayed in the direction facing Jerusalem and repeated the refrain “Next Year in Jerusalem.”

Jerusalem has only been the capital of one people – the nation of Israel. Mecca and Medina are the spiritual centers of Islamic tradition. In Christianity, Jerusalem’s significance is largely religious.

Israel left Arab homes and residents in tact. Israeli authorities relocated homeless squatters who had been living among the ruins of the ancient Second Temple period. Israel offered these displaced people compensation and alternative housing.

Since 1967, Jerusalem’s holy sites have become the freest and most accessible that they have been in 2000 years. Israeli law requires absolute freedom of worship for all faiths and sites. Muslim and Christian authorities are given free rein to administer their respective holy sites, while Israel fiercely guards these sites, exacting strict penalties on those who violate them. See Israel's policy of Freedom of Worship in Israel's Holy Places.

Not much. UN Security Council Resolution 242, the agreed basis for the Middle East peace process, calls only for the return of some territory, which Israel captured from Syria, Jordan and Egypt in 1967, as part of a negotiated peace. It does not apply specifically to any part of Jerusalem, a fact confirmed by the former US Ambassador to the UN, Arthur Goldberg, who helped draft the resolution. Goldberg said: “Resolution 242 in no way refers to Jerusalem, and this omission was deliberate.”

UN General Assembly Resolution 181 (“the Partition Plan”) of 1947 called for Jerusalem to remain a separate, internationalized body until its residents, the largest group of whom had then been Jewish, were to vote on its final status. But the resolution was overturned by all neighboring Arab states, who attacked the Jewish state, forcing new borders that contradicted the Partition Plan and exposing the UN’s “protective force” in Jerusalem as a sham.

Jordan started firing despite Israeli warnings to stay out of the war. Subsequently, Israeli and Jordanians fought in the Old City and surrounding areas. Holy sites suffered little damage.

No. Both the U.S.-sponsored Mitchell Commission and Palestinian Authority Ministers have confirmed that the violence across the entire West Bank and Gaza had been planned earlier: PA Communications Minister Imad al-Faluji told the Lebanese daily, Al Ayyam: “Whoever thinks that the intifada broke out because of the despised Sharon's visit to the Al-Aqsa Mosque is wrong…This intifada was planned in advance.”

Yes. Since a proposal to divide Jerusalem emerged in the negotiations in 1999 at Camp David, Jerusalem was placed up for grabs. Rest assured that the city will be on the negotiation table again. In the last few years, the issue has been raised by Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, the Saudi Arabian leadership, Yasser Arafat and Abu Mazen. The Palestinian effort has far from abated; indeed, Palestinians continue to demand control over religious sites in Jerusalem as a primary goal of their “Al Aqsa” intifada. Prime Minister Sharon recently called on all people who support Jerusalem to make their voices heard.