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Opinion | Jerusalem is a red line Israel today

2021-08-12T20:35:58.073Z


The United States should say: Jerusalem is the just and largest Israeli settlement ever • Do not talk about demographics or security • Here we must talk about our connection to this city, our right and our primacy in it, from the days of King David to the present day we • Opinion


Something unhealthy is happening in the developing relationship between the Bennett-Lapid government and the Biden government: there are no free meals, and for the coordination on security issues we have to pay in very expensive currency - Jerusalem.

It is not just the "Palestinian consulate" that Trump has closed and Biden seeks to reopen in East Jerusalem.

Behind the scenes (as we publish today in "Israel This Week"), the United States demands that Israel not build another phase of the Har Homa neighborhood; delay construction on Givat Hamatos, not promote the planning and approval of the huge Jewish neighborhood in Atarot; not promote the construction of the Jewish neighborhood In the "A-1", between Ma'ale Adumim and Jerusalem;

American pressure on Israel on a variety of issues is concentrated in Jerusalem, as the Americans believe it is the key to any future solution.

If this government, as Bennett declared, is 10 degrees to the right of its predecessor, and in such a consensual matter as Jerusalem deserves to be much more than 10 degrees to the right - then Israel must reject these pressures, sensitively but resolutely.

The meaning of the continued freeze on construction in these places (true - the Netanyahu government also froze) is a practical reconciliation with a process whose end will lead to one division or another in Jerusalem.

Jerusalem, we must tell the United States, our rivals and our friends there, is the fairest and largest Israeli settlement ever. Here we must not talk about demographics or security, or "natural growth." Our right and our birthright in it, from the days of King David and the first and second temples to the days of 1948 and the Six Day War and our days. Speak clearly, without stuttering and without apologizing. To draw a red line, to make it clear that here, in Jerusalem, the most significant pattern of memory of the Jewish people - the Green Line is dead; That a waiver of our rights in Jerusalem, including the rights of construction and development here, makes our right to the Land of Israel a disabled person's right. That here there will be no more division.

Source: israelhayom

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