Column One: Israel Making the case

Column One: Israel Making the case:

The government should stop trying both sides.Forty-three years after playing the Jewish people liberated Jerusalem, our capital has never been under greater attack. But it has never been vigorously defended by an outraged Jewish people - in Israel and worldwide. Last week, Makor Rishon reported that U.S. diplomats were "interested" in all Jewish building projects in the capital. Ambassador James Cunningham and Jerusalem Consul General Daniel Rubinstein have repeatedly met with relevant Ministers to express U.S. opposition to all construction in Jewish neighborhoods built since 1967. Bowing to the shocking American attack on the sovereignty of Israel, the government reportedly canceled plans that had already been approved for 2,500 apartments in Ramot, Pisgat Ze'ev, Neve Ya'acov, Gilo and Har Homa. The U.S. is also demanding that Israel not take action against illegal Arab construction in the capital. That is, the U.S. acts to undermine the rule of law in Israel twice. First attempts to deny the Jewish Jerusalemites their property, and second, it calls for Israel not to have laws against Arab criminals to enforce. The Obama administration's attempt to Israel's sovereignty in Jerusalem weakening is part of a bigger step with international links to the Islamist campaign to remove from Jerusalem by Israel to deny Jewish rights to the city to support. The EU has so committed to undermining Israel's sovereignty in Jerusalem, that even in the midst of financial crisis, the EU economies collapse seems like dominoes, sources say that the EU mission to Israel recently pledged at least € 1 million to IR Amim. Ir Amim is an NGO which mission is to undermine Israeli sovereignty in Jerusalem. According to NGO Monitor, two thirds of its budget comes from Ir Amim EU and the Norwegian, Swedish and Czech governments. In their attempt to undermine Israel's sovereignty, U.S. President Barak Obama and are assisted by leftist Europeans, increasingly anti-Zionist Jews. Following the American pro-Palestinian lobby J Street, earlier this month, the prominent French Jewish intellectuals, Bernard-Henri Levy and Alain Finkielkraut published a manifesto signed by hundreds of their cohorts to attack Israel for the failure of peace in the region and occupation to the EU and the U.S. to pressure Israel to Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria to the Palestinians surrender. At American universities, far-left Jewish students have taken a prominent role in undermining the recognition of Israel's right to exist. At the University of California, Berkeley, and at other campuses, Jewish students are together with Muslim groups in their campaign to the universities' holdings in companies that invest in Israel to divest. At Brandeis, Jewish students organized a campaign to Ambassador Michael Oren canceling early this year during the opening ceremony. Not surprisingly, like other Jewish anti-Israel initiatives, these movements in France and the U.S. have gained significant media attention and support. What has received less coverage, the popular resistance in European and Jewish communities from these initiatives. After late awakening to the threat of rejection of Israel, the Jews in Berkeley and the surrounding community organized a massive and now a successful campaign to drive the sales block. At Brandeis, thousands of students, faculty and alumni signed a petition in support of the university inviting Ears. And in Europe, the Italian Fiamma Nirenstein MP responded to the anti-Israel manifesto with a counter-petition. Nirenstein notes that the petition in their anti-Israel diatribe, Levy and Finkielkraut that the absence of the Middle East peace based not on the scale of Israel, but the refusal of the Arab world to accept Israel's existence to ignore . She further noted that by attacking Israel now, the signatories of their anti-Israel screed, the public attention diverted away from the nuclear program of Iran, which today threatens not only Israel but Europe. Nirenstein position was reflected in a sister petition published by the French Jewish leader Prof. Shmuel Trigano. Together, the Italian and French petitions garnered twice the number of signatures as Levy-Finklekraut statement. IT is not just that the vast majority of Jews in Israel and around the world supports Israel and opposes any attempt to Israel and Israeli sovereignty in Jerusalem delegitimize. Jewish activists responding to false claims by Israel's rights by saying the Jewish people to Israel's rights in general and to Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria in particular. For example, last month the European Coalition for Israel along with the Canadians in Israel's legal rights and a conference in San Remo, Italy. Here they are the 90th anniversary commemoration of the Conference of San Remo, the legal status of the Ottoman Empire set after the break-up in World War I. In 1920, the Conference of San Remo provides that legal title to the Land of Israel - including Jerusalem and Judea and Samaria - belonged to the Jewish people. The San Remo resolutions were incorporated into international law through the mandates by the League of Nations, and their legal status has never canceled or replaced by the later treaty or a binding international resolution. Participants at the conference last month came from Europe, Israel and North America. Their message was clear. It is long past time for Israel and the Jewish people to begin to assert our rights to our capital and our country. Our attempts to square circles by agreeing to compromise our rights in exchange for promises of support and peace brought us to the point where the legitimacy of Israel is called into question over the world. More worrying is that, instead of supporting efforts such as the San Remo conference commemoration, and embracing loyal supporters of Israel from Rome to San Francisco to Jerusalem itself, the government is sitting on the fence. On the one hand, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu daily declares that Jerusalem will remain undivided capital of Israel and that he will make no concessions to the city. On the other side of the government actions speak a tremendous willingness to make concessions over Israeli sovereignty in Jerusalem. Contact Temple Mount. The cradle of Jewish civilization is not mentioned in the list of the Government of the Jewish heritage. So too, despite protests from the government's commitment to the city, is not removed in the bar at the Jewish worship on the Temple Mount. Jews remain the only religious group that the full freedom of religion does not enjoy the city. In announcing the beginning of the so-called peace negotiations between the U.S. and Israel and between the U.S. and the Fatah wing of the Palestinian Authority, the State Department said last week that the government, "Netanyahu has agreed to build Jewish block in the district Ramat Shlomo for several years''. The government has not disputed this claim. In reality the government is precisely the willingness to participate in the Obama administration's phony peace process undermines Israeli control over Jerusalem. Seen clearly that the Obama administration's commitment to re-partition the city, it's clear that the talks can only Israeli control over the weakening of our capital. The government weakness of Jerusalem is a reflection of a broader unwillingness of the Israeli diplomats to stand by Israel and against Israeli opponents of the followers around the world. More often than not, the groups most enthusiastic support of the Israeli embassies received trying to undermine Israel. The behavior of the embassy in London is a case in point. This week, the embassy sent a communication to her mailing urging the public to a lecture by former managing director of Peace Now living Gavri Bargil at the London School of Economics. On the other hand, the embassy chose not to publicize a lecture by Minister-without-Portfolio Bennie Begin on Yom Yerushalayim. The initial speech was sponsored by several major Jewish organizations. It is unclear who sponsored Bargil talk. Late last year, Akiva Tor, the Israeli consul general in San Francisco, at a resolution presented to the Jewish Federation Board of Directors for a boycott of all groups that support boycotts and divestment from Israel. The resolution was tabled after the Federation-supported Jewish Film Festival hosted Rachel Corrie's mother and screened for a pro-Hamas propaganda film lionizing Corrie, who was accidentally run over by a bulldozer IDF while attempting to IDF counterterror operations in the Gaza Strip to block. In a letter to the local Jewish paper, Tor claimed that Corrie's mother was only "an Israeli terror victims." In Los Angeles, was Consul General Yaakov Dayan interviewed last years on a local radio program. He was unable to make the legal basis for the Israeli communities outside the 1949 armistice lines. It took a local Jewish activist who called the station to Israel to explain the duties under the mandate of the League of Nations. The only government representative to the San Remo conference was Likud MK Danny Danon. The government is not the lead in strengthening Israel and Jewish communities worldwide to take is not new. On Wednesday evening, on Yom Yerushalayim in Ir David, the historic site of the palace of King David, the Moskowitz Prize for Zionism given to three exceptional leaders: Anita Tucker, Rabbi Yoel Schwartz and Brig.-Gen. (Res.) Dr. Aharon Davidi. All of them have strengthened Israel and the Jewish people through their pioneering work, often despite the opposition of the government. Tucker was one of the founders of Netzer Hazani in Gush Katif in 1975. The community was built on sand, arid Gaza's dunes, was one of the most successful agrarian societies in the world was destroyed by the government in 2005. Rather than break after work, her life was destroyed, Tucker has been a central force in the reconstruction of Netzer Hazani, and the other 20 communities of Gush Katif. Rabbi Yoel Schwartz is the spiritual leader of the Haredi Nahal unit of the IDF. Schwartz bucked opposition from both the IDF and the ultra-Orthodox establishment and founded the central unit ultra-Orthodox youth in the IDF brings in big numbers for the first time. In early 1980, Davidi completed a military service, which began in 1944 and led him to positions in some of the most crucial battles in the history of the nation command. After retirement, Davidi decided that something should be done to the Diaspora Jews feel that it's part of the IDF. So in 1983 he Sar-El, which brings foreigners to Israel to volunteer on IDF bases. Since the creation of Sar-El has more than 100,000 volunteers from 30 countries into Israel. Tucker, Schwartz and Davidi are extraordinary individuals. But their success is largely due to the fact that they believe in Israel and the Jewish people. They understand that the Jews who try to undermine the state are a small minority. Rather than try to calm them down, they work with the vast majority of the country and its people to strengthen. It is impossible to protect the rights of the Jewish people and the demands of the Obama administration and the alliance of the international left and the Islamic world to reconcile results in their campaign to undermine Israeli control over Jerusalem.
The government must stop trying on both sides of the aisle to play. Instead, follow the example of his extraordinary citizens and Jews around the world on the rights of the Jewish people to our city and our country.