Recognising Jerusalem as Israel's capital is good for peace. Britain should do so too

Following the United States’s decision to recognise Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, Palestine’s President Mahmoud Abbas responded by saying that the Americans can no longer have “any role” in the peace process. In this country, too, the White House’s decision has been criticised by some MPs and in parts of the press. Are these objections really justified? The Oxford English Dictionary succinctly defines a “capital” as “the city or town that fu