A Letter on Jerusalem

On November 25, my favorite New York Times carried an article, "Europeans Rebuke Israeli Jerusalem Policy", dealing with a European Union report on Jerusalem.

As you can guess its tone and content, let's get right to my letter that I sent and probably will not be published.

Prior to the 1967 war and Israel's subsequent administrative control over the entire city of Jerusalem and extending its sovereignty to it, Jewish rights in the eastern neighborhoods, supposedly secured in United Nations' resolutions, were ignored.

No reports were issued, and headlined in the world's press, regarding desecration of Jewish cemeteries and synagogues. No reports noted confiscation and destruction of Jewish property. No reports condemned refusal of Jordan to permit free access to the Western Wall. Jerusalem had become forcibly depopulated of its Jews and no European diplomat really cared.

If now is the time to become perturbed and bothered, this EU report not only will "reinforce" Israeli opinion that Europeans are pro-Palestinian but will confirm the woeful lack of morality this type of political posturing poses.