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November 01, 2007
The Report Nobody's Talking About
So: A leading left-wing institute puts together a report to support its notion of dividing Jerusalem, but guess what happens? The report contradicts the institute's core idea and goes on to say that dividing Jerusalem is based on a series of faulty premises.
What happens to such a report?
It is buried.
Honestly, who would have thought the left would stoop to such dishonest tactics?
Even as leading cabinet ministers openly advocate a division of Jerusalem, a new report on the problems inherent in such a move has garnered little attention. This disregard is remarkable for two reasons. The first is the report's provenance: the Jerusalem Institute for Israel Studies, a respected left-wing research institute that has hitherto been a leading proponent of dividing the capital, and whose proposals have served as the basis for successive Israeli offers to do so from 2000 onward. The second is the report's chief revelation: that the dramatic erosion in what was once a wall-to-wall consensus against dividing Jerusalem has been based almost entirely on faulty premises.
To read the complete article, please click here.
Hat Tip: Seraphic Cholent Friend, Michael Makiri
Posted by Robert J. Avrech at November 1, 2007 02:35 PM
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Has anyone informed Rabbi Kanefsky of this report? Or the LA Times?
Posted by: soccer dad at November 1, 2007 04:15 PM
David:
Honestly, do you think this report or a hundred exactly like it would change Rabbi Kanefsky's mind?
He probably considers the sniper attacks on Gilo to be, um, "an unfortunate but understandable response to the harsh occupation."
Or maybe he thinks the shootings are carried out by "fringe radical elements who don't represent the true good nature of the Pali Arab people."
Whatever.
As for the LA Times, well, honestly David, they'll publish this story when Steven Erlanger prints it.
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at November 1, 2007 04:25 PM
Thanks for the link.
Posted by: therapydoc at November 4, 2007 05:32 PM
Bad enough that Israel doesn't protest the fact that almost no country, or is it no country at all, recognizes Jerusalem as Israel's capital, but Israeli politicians are cooperating with its destruction.
Posted by: muse at November 4, 2007 09:24 PM