{"id":3007,"date":"2007-10-18T11:46:28","date_gmt":"2007-10-18T09:46:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/18\/east-jerusalem-another-hamastan\/"},"modified":"2007-10-18T11:52:10","modified_gmt":"2007-10-18T09:52:10","slug":"east-jerusalem-another-hamastan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/18\/east-jerusalem-another-hamastan\/","title":{"rendered":"East Jerusalem: Another Hamastan?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nCommentary;<\/p>\n

Once again,<\/strong> Dr. Aaron Lerner of IMRA<\/strong><\/a> is on the mark in pinpointing other dangers of making “concessions” regarding East Jerusalem,<\/strong><\/a> aside from the obvious and MOST IMPORTANT ONE;<\/em> that making “concessions” regarding Jerusalem as our eternal and undivided capital, or Har Habayit is as if cutting out the heart of a man.<\/p>\n

Recently, this author received a well-worded email which, in part, touched on this precise point;<\/strong><\/p>\n

A body can function in a limited way without certain major limbs, but once the heart goes, it’s all over. Har HaBayit is THE HEART OF OUR NATION.<\/em> Our most active motions MUST<\/em> be directed towards strengthening the heart.<\/strong> <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Further, making such “concessions” is to confirm to the world the “validity” of countless oft-repeated Arab, Islamic lies and slanders against the Jews (i.e. “Jerusalem was never capital, that the “Beit Hamikdash never stood where the Jews claim”, etc.). MB<\/strong> <\/p>\n

Leading Israeli Leftist Warns Eastern Jerusalem Could Become Another Gaza, by Dr. Aaron Lerner<\/strong><\/a> (IMRA)<\/a><\/p>\n

Writing in an Op-Ed titled “They Depend On Us” that appears in the Hebrew edition of today’s Haaretz, Meir Margalit (Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions – former Meretz representative in Jerusalem City Council) warns that eastern Jerusalem could become another Gaza if the Arab neighborhoods become part of a Palestinian state and Israel, in turn, cuts off the payments and transfers it now makes that benefit the Arab residents.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The article in Hebrew can be found here<\/strong><\/a> and is loosely translated below;<\/strong><\/p>\n

Margalit estimates that Israel today is transferring NIS 200 million a year in national insurance payments to the Arabs of eastern Jerusalem while the municipality of Jerusalem spends an additional NIS 300 million a year in eastern Jerusalem (not covered by municipal taxes paid by the Arabs).. He warns that someone – either Israel or the international community – would have to continue footing this NIS 500 million a year bill as otherwise eastern Jerusalem would completely collapse and face a humanitarian crises that would turn it into another radical Gaza.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

. Commentary; Once again, Dr. Aaron Lerner of IMRA is on the mark in pinpointing other dangers of making “concessions” regarding East Jerusalem, aside from the obvious and MOST IMPORTANT ONE; that making “concessions” regarding Jerusalem as our eternal and undivided capital, or Har Habayit is as if cutting out the heart of a man. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3007\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}