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Once again Caroline Glick provides us with important insights and observations by drawing our attention to the uncomfortable reality that “…Israel faces daunting challenges today and that those challenges will multiply and grow in the near future should not be construed as a partisan or ideological statement.

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by Yoram Getzler A short time before my bar-mitzva my parents welcomed a new member to their close knit Labor Zionist community. A cousin of one of the “old timers”. He and his wife had somehow survived the Holocaust.

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” My first glimpse of Jerusalem was in October 1947. I was a young student from the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York coming to what I thought would be a one year period of study at the Hebrew University. Since then I have never looked back. After Jerusalem there is no where else to go.” Then I joined the Hagana.

One of the many sites UNESCO wants to officially recognize as a Mosque. A painting of Rachel’s Tomb as it looked from the late 1800s to the 1990s. The brick cube with the dome was constructed around 1620 by the Ottomans; the white extension was added in 1860 by Sir Moses Montefiore. Yoram : “Personally I find this UNESCO deceleration particularly disdainful. The Temple mount has already been dug-up and the soil ravaged and its historic contents “dumped”. The Palestinian/Arab/Muslim world already declares as bogus the Jewish claim of there having been a Jewish nation here.That is the fundamental basis of the conflict! I wonder where Jesus went to turn over the tables of the money lenders, where was Bethlehem, where was Nazareth? Steve: The time has come to end this insidious behavior of the UN members to de-legitimize Israel and its Jewish heritage by eradicating any semblance of our archeological and historical past. We strongly urge you to sign this petition today.

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BY Yoram Getzler: In a recent article in the Jerusalem Post (“Why Israelis demand recognition” Jerusalem Post, Magazine, Oct 8 ’10 ) commentator Amos Asa El asks the question that Mahmoud Abbas and the Palestinian leadership is asking, “Why does the Israeli government demand of us recognition of Israel as the nation state of the Jewish people when it did not demand that of Egypt or Jordan when signing peace treaties with them?”

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By Yoram Getzler It is little wonder that we have been experiencing continued failure for years now in the attempt of the US state department to “solve” the Israel / Arab conflict. Now that we know that Arnold David Miller has been advising several American sectaries of state on the middle-east there is less reason be surprised. (Jerusalem Post and; The Washington Post) Five myths about the Middle East peace process http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-yn/content/article/2010/10/01/AR2010100103144.html

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