more scope east jerusalem contains much more than the old city it also includes the american colony site of the u s consulate and that whole downtown shopping area including the rockefeller museum it offends my jewish sensibilities when you imply that half the old city really belongs to jordan they took it from us and now they say it was always theirs july utc they took it from us is this some obscure usage of they which can simultaneously refer to romans and jordanians as the same entity while lumping together a year old theocratic monarchy with a republic founded by atheist nationalists as us anyway if you want to expand on the american colony or the shopping area i'm sure more information on other east jerusalem neighborhoods would be a welcome addition july utc