Netanyahu to divide Jerusalem?
In an otherwise uneventful speech to the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations on Wednesday night, Prime Minister Netanyahu came up with this (Hat Tip: Gershon D). But then, in an off-the-cuff remark to a question on Jerusalem from the audience, Benjamin Netanyahu dropped a hint that his government’s insistence on Israeli sovereignty over all of Jerusalem might not be ironclad.Hmmm. (Yes, I believe he would do it, no I don't believe he could get his coalition to go along, and he cannot do it without a Knesset vote).
“Everybody knows that there are Jewish neighborhoods in Jerusalem that under any peace plan will remain where they are,” Netanyahu said in response to the question read by the executive vice chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, Malcolm Hoenlein.
The implication of Netanyahu’s remark -- that other neighborhoods of Jerusalem may not remain “where they are,” becoming part of an eventual Palestinian state -- was the first hint that the Israeli leader may be flexible on the subject of Jerusalem. Until now, Netanyahu has insisted that Jerusalem is not up for negotiation.
While the prime minister surely did not intend the gathering under the aegis of the Presidents Conference to serve as his forum for opening up negotiations over Jerusalem, the impromptu remark before an audience of prominent New York Jews and a handful of elected officials cast a slim ray of light on what Netanyahu thinks might be the Israeli capital’s ultimate fate.
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 11:38 PM
2 Comments:
Jerusalem is the eternal capital of the Jewish people. If he gives any away to the Arabian colonists whose very presence putrefies the kedusha of Eretz Israel he deserves to be a yored like Dr. Ido.
Does he really think that by pleasing the salon jewish liberals that they'll stop intermarrying and will become olim? They never will and are no different from their parents/grandparents who were deafeningly silent during the Holocaust.
He will just turn off the Jews who support him
I don't believe there is any support in Israel, outside the Far Left, for redividing Jerusalem. And if the proposition was presented to the city's voters, it would be overwhelmingly rejected in both the Jewish and Arab parts of the city.
As a trial balloon, its going to go nowhere.
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