Israel is not given a capital on the official Olympics Web site. Instead, www.Athens2004.com gives an asterisk, which refers to a footnote on the bottom of the page giving a link to the U.N. Web site. The U.N. site says that the U.N. position on Jerusalem is in Resolution 181, which calls for international control of the city.
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