By Haaretz Editorial 
Every time an election looms, be it for the Knesset, local government, or a party primary, the "who will divide Jerusalem" issue miraculously returns to raise the emotional temperature.
Ehud Olmert was the first to contribute the threat to divide Jerusalem to populist politics, when he charged more than a decade ago that "Peres will divide Jerusalem." Then he tried to persuade everyone that Ehud Barak would not divide the city, and finally, as Kadima's leader, he agreed to discuss the city's partition in talks with the Palestinians.
Yesterday, the U.S. consul general in Jerusalem, Jacob Walles, introduced the issue of Jerusalem into Kadima's primary campaign when he told the newspaper Al-Ayyam that Israel had agreed to discuss dividing the city. Since Olmert and Tzipi Livni are the ones presently conducting the talks, the immediate beneficiary of the renewed threat to divide the city was Shaul Mofaz, who left the Likud but remained there ideologically. 
Anyone who engages in real peace negotiations with the Palestinians will have to accept a division of Jerusalem; anyone who preaches its integrity and unity is simply deceiving the public. The separation fence, which snakes in and around some 170 kilometers of the "united" city, in places winding through neighborhoods and even between houses, reveals the stark truth: Jerusalem, regardless of the politicians' denials, is a divided city.  
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