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and isolate Israel — unless Israel succumbs to Palestinian and international dictates for almost complete Israeli withdrawal from the West Bank and Jerusalem. Kerry is effectively telling the Palestinians that they should make sure the talks fail, and then Israel's "gonna get it." So now the Palestinian
owards compromise no less than Israelis. He should be pressing them to close the "peace gap" by accepting the historic ties of the Jewish people to the Land of Israel and the legitimacy of Israel's existence in the Middle East as a Jewish state — which, in principle, includes Judea and Samaria. He should be call
war no more." These words were s the Jewish prophet Isaiah 2,800 years ago as he walked in my country, in my city, i of Judea and in the streets of Jerusalem. We are not strangers to this land. It is our homeland. As deeply connected as we ai land, we recognize that the Palestinians also live there and w
tate for the Palestinian pi Palestinians must be asked to recognize the nation state of the Jewish people. The people are not foreign conquerors in the Land of Israel. This is the land of our fora Inscribed on the walls outside this building is the great Biblical vision of peace: "Na not lift up sword against nat
ther crying hysterically. Moshe had been killed, along with 34 other Jewish soldiers and civilians, trying to bring supplies to a Jewish outpost near Jerusalem. My mother kept sobbing, “She was in the movies, when her son was killed. She was in the movies.” Israel’s war had come home to Boro Park. It had bee
d in May of 1948, when I was nine and a half years old. Following its bold declaration that after 2,000 years of exile, there arose a Jewish state in the Land of Israel, (supported by the United Nations, the United States, the Soviet Union and most western nations), the nascent state was attacked by the armies of the
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Benjamin Netanyahu
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Barack Obama
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George W. Bush
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Bill Clinton
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Marc Rich
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West Bank
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Michael Cohen
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Hillary Clinton
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Adolf Hitler
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Philadelphia
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Winston Churchill
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Eastern Europe
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Samaria
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Judea
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Adam Sandler
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Saeb Erekat
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Harvard University
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Yale University Press
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