A Country Without A Capital

Can you have a country without a capital?  Can you have a country without a head of state?  Can you have a country without a system of governance?

Go back.  Head of state?  Yes, a country does need one.  (How he gets to be head of state is another question.)

Does a country need a system of governance?  Yes.  A country's governance says a lot about what kind of country it is.

But, does it need a capital?  From the point of view of the U.S., apparently not.  In Israel you have a tested democracy, a technologically advanced state, a militarily strong state, an industrial state, but, as far as the U.S. is concerned, a state without a capital.

The U.S. has its embassy in Tel Aviv.  Why?  Well, of course we know why.  It's certainly not because Tel Aviv is the capital of Israel.  It is not nor ever has been.  So why is that that's where the U.S. has put its embassy?  Clearly, it's to deny that Jerusalem is Israel's capital.

Egypt has a capitali  Lebanon has a capital.  Libya has a capital.  Syria has a capital.  Iran has a capital.  Iraq has a capital.  Tunisia has a capital.  Algeria has a capital.  Morocco has a capital.  Jordan has a capital.  Saudi Arabia has a capital.  Sudan has a capital. But, Israel?  No capital.

Who is it that's out of touch, the Israelis, for whom Jerusalem is clearly their capital, or the U.S. which maintains that Israel has no capital?  Maybe that's why Obama has never visited Israel.  He can't find the capital.