(Community Matters) This is unproductive and unnecessarily provocative. Israel talks about these expansions as simply following the rule of law but the rule of law is practiced in a discriminatory fashion as relates to Jerusalem and nearby West Bank occupied lands
IT SOUNDS straightforward enough. In the words of Stephan Miller, spokesman for Jerusalem city: “Once any construction project in the city of Jerusalem has completed the permit process…it can begin construction, irrelevant of race, religion, creed and gender.” But there is the rub. Race, religion, creed and sometimes even gender are supremely relevant if the Holy City, a complex web of separate Jewish and Arab districts, is ever to be divided peaceably into the capitals of two states, Israel and Palestine.
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