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November 9, 2017

Only Israel Can Preserve Jerusalem as a Holy City for Three Faiths

The historical record is clear.

Yesterday, Dore Gold, the former Israeli ambassador to the UN, testified at a congressional hearing about the relocation of the U.S. embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. To Gold, the question of the embassy is part of a larger issue: “the need for Western recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.” The absence of such recognition, he argues, “helps fuel the dangerous fantasy, popular in the Middle East, that Israel is impermanent and illegitimate.” But there is an additional reason the West should ensure that Jerusalem remains in Israel’s hands:

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November 9, 2017

  1. Only Israel Can Preserve Jerusalem as a Holy City for Three Faiths

    The historical record is clear.

  2. Why Israel Vowed to Protect a Pro-Assad Syrian Village, and Why That’s Risky

    Jerusalem must maintain its covenant with the Druze while staying out of the Syrian civil war.

  3. Being Anti-Nazi in 2017 Doesn’t Require Courage or Conviction

    It doesn’t even require refraining from anti-Semitism.

  4. How Halakhah Differs from Philosophy in Solving the Trolley Problem

    Balancing law and intuition.

  5. Rethinking the Link between Sexual Repression and Sexual Abuse

    Deprived, or depraved?