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08/07/08
How to Deal with Jerusalem  —Lt. Col. (Res.) Ron Shatzberg, Project Director, Economic Cooperation Foundation. Interview with Middle East Bulletin.
08/07/08
How to Deal with Jerusalem  —
08/05/08
Why Did Maliki Call for a Timeline?  —by Christopher Kojm who teaches at the Elliott School of International Affairs at George Washington University and is a former senior advisor to the Iraq Study Group. Original Commentary for Middle East Bulletin.

Setting the Record Straight

Already Divided

“Even the Arab minority in the city has shown its preference for living under Israeli rule, as many have moved to the Israeli side of the security barrier being built around Jerusalem. Their choice is reasonable, as Jerusalem offers the quality of life of a modern western city while only a few kilometers away the norm is a third world standard of living, chaos and religious intolerance. An undivided Jerusalem is the best guarantee of a better life for all Jerusalemites.”
—Nathan Diament, Director of Public Policy, Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America, July 23, 2008 versus
  • “Those who believe that Jerusalem should not be divided, and mean by that that the Arab neighborhoods should not be separated from the city, should be the first to insist that an active policy be adopted by the government and the municipality to improve the lot of local Arab residents. Barring that, Jerusalem will continue to remain a divided city.”
    —Moshe Arens, former Israeli defense and foreign minister (Likud), “A Story of Neglect,” Haaretz, July 28, 2008

    • Middle East Analysis

    IDF Beefs Up Security on Egyptian Border

    Herb Keinon (Jerusalem Post)
    January 25, 2008

    Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and Syrian President Bashar Assad (AP)

    The IDF closed down Highway 10 along the Israeli-Egyptian border from Gaza to Eilat Thursday night in a concrete sign of heightened Israeli concern that the breached border between Gaza and Egypt will lead to increased terrorism against Israel.

    Defense officials expressed concern that terrorists were among the hundreds of thousands of Gazans to swarm into Egypt over the last 48-hours and would try to launch attacks from Sinai along the long border into Israel. The IDF is also in contact with communities in the western Negev to provide them with security updates and assessments.

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