CNN interview with Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat
Here's a CNN interview with Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat. Are all CNN interviewers this biased? Did Barkat know that he was walking into a lion's den?Let's go to the videotape.
I can tell you that it's almost impossible to get permits in the Jewish parts of the city as well (I have neighbors who have had additions demolished and who are in the process of having additions demolished - very few people in the Jewish parts of the city actually build completely illegal buildings).
On the whole, I think Barkat did pretty well. She's wrong - there is no international law that says Jerusalem is 'occupied land.'
Bottom line: The only people without freedom of worship in Jerusalem are Jews who cannot pray on the Temple Mount, as compared with the pre-1967 situation where the Jews were excluded from the entire Old City. There is far more freedom of worship today than there was before 1967.
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 9:30 AM
5 Comments:
Hala Gorani
spit
Barkat played it poorly. I would have called her "another ignorant CNN tool" to her face.
Shy Guy, nothing much to be done about hatred of the Jews.
I can think of a few things I would liked to say to the CNN interviewer, I am too civilized to share them on here.
That said, I think Barkat did the best he could.
@Carl,
- Since Cnn is very leftist,what was Barkat's purpose ?
-Hala Gorani is from syria and has been criticizing Israel from her first day at cnn
Some years ago, she was so angry over our nano state that I thought she was going to have a stroke !
Bottom line: he should not have accepted that interview which was a plain trap !
Nir Barkat is on a good path. A suggestion would be to introduce the term "title search" in relation to the structures taken down. And then roll out a sample blueprint on that big table. That wouldn't address the situation in Carl's area where additions are removed, but it would account for the removal of structures built by people who actually don't own the land. Title search, set backs, lots of boriing, non-partisan real estate terms that could undercut this CNN lady's inflammatory rhetoric.
In responding to this kind of accusation, it would be appropriate to bring up that fact that Arabs are not forced to serve in the IDF by their own choice.
The factors behind this anomaly justify a quid pro quo to keep Jerusalem Jewish.
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