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March 7, 2018

The U.S. Embassy Belongs in Israel’s Capital, and Always Has

If Israelis do not have the right to sovereignty in Jerusalem, they can hardly justify sovereignty anywhere.

In 1995, Douglas Feith helped Senators Bob Dole and Jon Kyl draft a bill requiring the federal government to relocate its embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. Twenty-three years after the bill was passed—with overwhelming bipartisan majorities—the Trump administration has put plans in place to comply with the law. The arguments made by Feith in 1995 remain no less pertinent today:

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March 7, 2018

  1. The U.S. Embassy Belongs in Israel’s Capital, and Always Has

    If Israelis do not have the right to sovereignty in Jerusalem, they can hardly justify sovereignty anywhere.

  2. The Senate Should Stop Stalling and End U.S. Funding for Palestinian Terror

    Pass the Taylor Force Act.

  3. Turkey’s Slide into Islamist Militarism Threatens Its Alliance with the U.S.

    As do its militant nationalism, authoritarianism, and anti-Americanism.

  4. Israel’s Judicial Tyranny Is Beginning to Unravel

    Some positive signs.

  5. The Tabernacle as a Biblical Lesson in Artistic Creativity

    God’s spirit and God’s image.