ISRAEL HAYOM
Why we shouldn’t divide Jerusalem
by David M. Weinberg
June 17, 2017
…The worst plan [for dividing Jerusalem] is that of former MK Haim Ramon for unilateral Israeli withdrawal from 28 predominantly Arab neighborhoods in eastern Jerusalem. Ramon would have Israel callously cut 200,000 Arabs out of Israeli Jerusalem and build a very big and impermeable wall between the two parts of the city… The ugly idea undoubtedly would lead to the worst possible security situation. The belligerent cleaving of Jerusalem into Arab and Jewish sovereignties would plunge the city into battle. Jerusalem would become the bull’s eye of radical Islamic fantasies, making Belfast at its worst look like paradise. READ MORE