the world does not recognize israel's position on jerusalem by a majority of to the majority of states recognize the state of palestine by a majority of to if you want a debate about wp undue you'd lose on that score alone since as i noted the current opening line gives undue weight to a fringe position still we're here not to quarrel but to find a sensible arrangement for an inadequate lead i'm happy to withdraw my qualifiers if the current majority prefers the text as evansh and tiamut tailored it by the way since the sop is a state occupied by israel arguments of the kind you are adducing do not apply we do not underwrite power arrangements here we simply state what the best sources agree is the case which here is that jerusalem is not wholly in israel is occupied and the occupied palestinian part is more or less left to its own resources in managing the mess in its quarter since the article deals with all of the city there's no way of equivocating over this and trying to maintain npov while relegating the palestinian fact to a footnote