JNS
Understanding the outposts
by Stephen M. Flatow
February 8, 2017

…For those who forget [Jordan] King Hussein’s record, I should mention that he was the king who decreed that all 57 synagogues in the Old City of Jerusalem should be destroyed; that Jewish gravestones from the Mount of Olives cemetery should be used for latrines in Jordanian army barracks; that all Jews should be barred from visiting the Western Wall during the years his regime occupied it. So the dictator who desecrated Jewish holy sites, demolished synagogues, and banned Jews from their holy places decided to “give away state land” in Judea and Samaria to local Palestinian Arabs. Who gave him the right to do that? And why should his illegal dissection of the Jewish homeland be considered valid? READ MORE