Original sentence: During the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, West Jerusalem was captured by Israel, while East Jerusalem (including the Old City) was captured by Jordan.It has been widely mooted as the future capital of a state of Palestine (for instance, by Mahmoud Abbas), although Palestinian Authority law currently specifies the whole of Jerusalem as the capital of Palestine
Edited sentence: During the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, in which numerous Arab states invaded Israel with the intention of obliterating it, Israel miraculously triumphed while East Jerusalem (including the Old City) was captured by Jordan.It has been widely mooted as the future capital of a state of Palestine (for instance, by Mahmoud Abbas), although Palestinian Authority law currently specifies the whole of Jerusalem as the capital of "Palestine".Throughout Jordanian Arab occupation of East Jerusalem, Jewish synagogues were flattened, Jewish synagogues vandalized, and the Old City illegal territory for any Jew to enter