The Jewish attachment to Jerusalem is incontrovertible.  However, the realities in Jerusalem today clash with Israel’s genuine interests, and a blind devotion to exclusive Israeli rule over a mythical “undivided” city poses grave existential challenges to the long-term viability of Israel and its character.  Indeed, a drama of historic proportions is unfolding in Jerusalem today. If the Government of Israel continues on its current course – pursuing its claims and policies of sole Israeli control over the entire city – Jerusalem will soon become the arena where the two-state solution is lost forever.  If it follows this path, Israel will be continue on a collision course with the Arab world, the world churches and much of the international community, and condemn the city of Jerusalem to become an impoverished, increasingly-violent backwater. By pursuing the alternative course – a political division of the city in a way that guarantees genuine Israeli and Jewish national interests – Israel will achieve what it needs and deserves most: recognition of Yerushalayim as the capital of Israel, and universal recognition of the Jewish attachment to the city, which will be the crowning achievement of Zionism.