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  • 10/13:
    Rabbi Levi Brackman and Sam Jaffe
  • 10/20:
    Jonathan Garfinkel
  • 10/21:
    Rabbi Robert Levine
  • 10/27:
    Danit Brown
  • 10/28:
    Joshua Henkin
  • 11/04:
    Craig Glazer
  • 11/11:
    Max Gross
  • 11/17:
    Seth Greenland

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DAILY SHVITZ
An Undivided Jerusalem?
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The American Prospect's Gershom Gorenberg says Hillary's Israel-Palestine position paper is for the birds:

The Israeli consensus that the city must never be divided has broken down. Vice Prime Minister Haim Ramon is reportedly pushing a plan to turn most Arab neighborhoods over to Palestinian rule, even if other members of the ruling Kadima party would rather give up less land in Jerusalem. Your position paper defends a stance that is already spoken of here in past tense, in a tone reserved for the naiveté of youth.

I'd like to believe that what you really mean by "undivided Jerusalem" is what your very closest adviser laid out in his parameters for an Israeli-Palestinian peace at the end of his term as president in January 2001: Jerusalem should be an "open and undivided city" but the capital of two independent states, with Palestinian parts of the city under Palestinian rule. Turning those parameters into reality would require inspired negotiating, with immense American investments of time and prestige, and such investments dried up completely very soon after Bill laid out his vision. As we all know, his successor doesn't do negotiating.



Michael is a contributing editor of Jewcy. His work has appeared in Slate, Gawker, New York, Democratiya, The New Criterion and The Weekly Standard. His blog is Snarksmith.


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Palestians should only get the Arab quarter

The Arab quarter should be under Palestinian  administration but not Palestinian sovereignty.    Israel should get the Armenian, Christian,  and Jewish quarters.

Israel already once tried to give Arafat part of the city and he rejected it.





Hess Levy Benveniste Eldar


Gershom Gorenberg is a well

Gershom Gorenberg is a well known hack for a binational state, where the Palestinians kick out the Jews by continuous violence. Goremberg is likely most offended by the Western Wall, which should be torn down to further dilute any Jewish claim to al Quds. How do the proponents of dividing Jerusalem deal with the scenario that the Temple Mount is converted to a Qassam launch site, which is immune to retaliation for fear of harming the mosques. Would would Israel do then? Complain to the UN boo hoo hoo? Jerusalem is Israel-ALL OF IT