What is the status of Jerusalem in the Peace Talks? Shouldn the Jews just give the place to the Arabs if the Arabs promise Peace?
• “[The Arab] claim to lost fields cannot be elevated to national status. They should not inherit Jerusalem for the same reason that Jews failed to inherit Baghdad: Jerusalem stands for Jewish ideas and Baghdad for Arab ideas.” – Avi Erlich, “Ancient Zionism” • “the search for peace can only be hindered by raising utterly unrealistic hopes about the future of Jerusalem among the Palestinians and understandable fears among the Israeli population that their capital city may once again be divided by cinder block and barbed wire.” – SENATOR DANIEL PATRICK MOYNIHAN (D-NY) and 91 other members of the Senate, March, 1995 • Jerusalem: A City Undivided By Congressman Jim Saxton (R-NJ-03) Chairman, House Task Force on Terrorism & Unconventional Warfare During the Six Day War in 1967, the Israeli Defense Forces confronted four Arab armies simultaneously: the Lebanese Army in north, Syrians and Jordanians in the east and the Egyptians in the south. The Israeli forces, under the commands of General
