Listen to John Kerry’s speech on the comatose Middle East “peace process”, or follow the serial condemnations of Israel at the UN, including the latest Security Council resolution 2334, and you’d think that the biggest sin in the world is that Jews build too much. They build too many houses, too many schools, too many synagogues, too many hospitals, too many roads.
Think about that. The biggest problem with the Jews is not that they go on terror rampages that murder thousands of innocents, or that they jail poets, hang gays or stone women. No, it’s that they build too much. The reason this construction is considered such a sin, of course, is that it’s happening inside disputed areas which Israel captured in a defensive war in 1967, when its Arab neighbours did everything they could to throw the Jews into the sea.
One of those disputed areas is East Jerusalem, which includes the Old City and Judaism’s holiest active site, the Western Wall. From the time Israel was created in 1948 until 1967, East Jerusalem was administered by Jordan and became a decrepit and closed place where holy sites were routinely destroyed.
After its liberation by the Jews in 1967, Jerusalem flourished, becoming an open, international city where all religions were honoured.
Read the full article by David Suissa at The Australian.