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YouTube: Dore Gold on Sky News: Housing in Jerusalem and the US-Israel Relations - Gold News
| YouTube: Dore Gold on Sky News: Housing in Jerusalem and the US-Israel Relations Amb. Dore Gold speaks on a leading British Sunday talk show on Sky News about the US-Israel alliance and the discussion over housing in Jerusalem. jcpa.org A Crisis in US-Israel Relations Have We Been Here Before? By Dore Gold -As a result of the June 1967 Six-Day War, Israel entered the eastern parts of Jerusalem and the West Bank in a war of self-defense. It is very important to recall that Israel entered these areas after it was attacked, and after it requested that the Jordanians not join the Egyptian war effort. There were Jordanian artillery attacks throughout Jerusalem and all of Israel, as well as movement of Jordanian ground forces into areas that were previously no-man's land. -There is presently a marked shift underway in US policy on Jerusalem. True, no US administration accepted Israel's annexation of Jerusalem in July 1967. Nonetheless, in the past we saw the US and Israel coming to a modus vivendi with respect to Israeli policy in Jerusalem, when Israel built various neighborhoods in the eastern parts of the city, from Ramat Eshkol to Gilo to Ramot. -A neighborhood called Har Homa in southeastern Jerusalem was established in 1997 during the Clinton administration to ease the considerable shortage of housing in the Jewish sector. On two occasions, the Arab bloc initiated a draft resolution in the UN Security Council to condemn Israel for constructing Har Homa. On both occasions, the US ambassador to the UN, Bill Richardson, vetoed those resolutions under <b>...</b> |
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