In Arabic, Jerusalem is called Al-Quds, which means the holy city, and is derived from the Moslem name given to the city in the 7th century, Bayt al-Maqdis, which means the Holy House and refers to the temple of the Jews which used to be there.
Jerusalem is holy for the Moslems because it was the first direction of prayer (in Arabic qibla) designated by Mohammed. Later Mohammed changed the direction of prayer to Mecca. The Moslems refer to it as Ula Al Qiblatayin, i.e., the first of the two qibla. A later Moslem tradition also regards Jerusalem as the place from where Mohammed ascended to heaven on his night journey from Mecca, and during which he met with Allah (god).
Currently Jerusalem is in Israel. After the 1948 war between the Jews and Arabs in Palestine, the city was divided. Part of the city became the capital of Israel and part of the city was taken over by Jordan (but not as its capital, which was and still is Amman). After the Six Day War in June 1967, Israel occupied and then annexed that part of the city which had been in Jordan. The world does not recognize the annexation, and certainly not the Moslems who consider the Israelis as occupiers of the city which they regard as the capital of the future Palestinian state.

let it go…..

In order to tell you what the ethical issues are, I have to know the situation.

However ethics and legality are two different animals, as it were.

Legality serves to help society as a whole which means that statutes are placed to affect an entire population. However this means that several people who don't quite fit into these categories aren't accounted for. This can cause large problems for the judicial system, however it is inevitable that some people aren't going to be accounted for when they apply specific laws governing an entire population.

Ethics serves to help society or a single person under a specific set of guidelines. That is to say, that ethics teaches people that killing and stealing are wrong, but other cultures might teach that stealing is alright under certain circumstances. Other cultures might argue that stealing is never wrong no matter what the circumstances were regardless of how justified you felt doing so. All of these guidelines that are taught to societies are ethics.

Most cultures or nations have what are called globally accepted morals regarding murder and rape. These are almost always looked at as a very serious infraction and usually punishments are anything from several years in prison to the death penalty. In this regard, the attitude between ethics and legality are the same, but the actual resolution is much different. Ethics and legality both state that murder and rape are considered wrong. However ethics does not state what the punishment (if there is one) is. Legality states in the united states that murder in the first degree warrants life in prison or the death penalty.

That in a nutshell are the distinctions between ethics and legality.

Well, I'd probably send my partner to live with his ex, really. I don't, won't and will never tolerate anything that resembles or comes close to infidelity. Considering that I had to snoop to find this and that I had an intuition to snoop says enough for me. He had no plans of being honest and upfront with you. The only reason he is is because he's been busted, he had no choice in the matter. So I would begin to wonder what else he is hiding and lying about. I wouldn't be able to trust a word he said. Granted I do believe he is still attracted to the ex. So that's even worse.

Right now he'd be in the dog house. He would have to prove to me his words. He would have to be tolerant of my questioning him about everything as he created this mess. This will only put more stress on the relationship. However, if we could survive this then I would see that he does truly love me and wants to fix the problem. But it would take time to trust him again. Don't be too quick to forgive. Be cautious and aware. Treat him accordingly.

If a dog bites me once, it is his fault. If he bites me again, it's my own fault.