10-06-2011, 10:29 AM
The whole thing is depressing. The US should be ashamed of themselves, and especially tthose who are lobbying their Congressmen to take such ludicrous acts, on the wild assumption that they are in the interest of Israel.
No-one in their right mind would think it sensible that any group of people had a right after 2000 years to go cantering back to the place tey believe they lived then, displacing the locals in the process. The spectacle of Jerusalem becoming a developer's paradise says nothing noble about this mean-spirited experiment. Despite my family ties, I become more and more pro_Palestinian., as aggravating as they sometimes are. And yes, the tragedy is, that it is all fixable....
No-one in their right mind would think it sensible that any group of people had a right after 2000 years to go cantering back to the place tey believe they lived then, displacing the locals in the process. The spectacle of Jerusalem becoming a developer's paradise says nothing noble about this mean-spirited experiment. Despite my family ties, I become more and more pro_Palestinian., as aggravating as they sometimes are. And yes, the tragedy is, that it is all fixable....