IF I FORGET THEE O'JERUSALEM ...

ISRAPUNDIT ^ | Jan 1/12 | TED BELMAN

[tedbel]

Daniel Seidemann, the author of “The Myth of Undivided Jerusalem,” published by The Atlantic, is the founder of Terrestrial Jerusalem, an “Israeli” non-governmental organization that works to prevent developments, even if good for the city’s residents, from taking place if said developments leave the city indivisible. The top three donors of this NGO are The Norwegian Foreign Ministry, The Swiss Foreign Ministry, and The British Foreign Ministry -- all of whom want Jerusalem divided -- according to the organization’s own website.

The article is part of the effort of The S. Daniel Abraham Center for Middle East Peace to “help reach a just and comprehensive peace that will bring an end to the Arab-Israeli conflict.”

As laudable as the search for peace is, many would argue, as I do, that agreeing to the terms of the PA -- or the EU, for that matter, not to mention Hamas -- would not result in peace in our time any more than such wrangling did in Chamberlin’s time. Furthermore, advocating for “peace” presupposes that the PA, to say nothing of Hamas, would sign an end-of-conflict agreement, abandon the so-called right of return, and recognize Israel as the state of the Jewish people. Their charter and their leaders say otherwise. Thus, an end-of-conflict peace agreement is unattainable and should be replaced by a more realistic goal.   Seidemann begins by affirming the attachment of the Jews to Jerusalem:

“The Jewish attachment to Jerusalem is incontestable. For millennia, Jerusalem has been central to Jewish identity in the Diaspora; since the birth of the state of Israel, the importance of contemporary Jerusalem as Israel's capital has become part of the ethos shared by Israelis and Jews around the world....”

[Taylor42]

He lost me with:

Cumulatively, Israeli policies in East Jerusalem today threaten to transform the Israeli-Palestinian conflict from a bitter national conflict that can be resolved by means of territorial compromise, into the potential for a bloody, unsolvable religious war.

Once again it's the Israeli's fault for the Arabs being unwilling to compromise on anything, including the existence of Israel.

[MarkL]

But it worked so well in Berlin

Mark