Palestine News & Info Agency – WAFA – Israel to Resume Digs in Mamilla Cemetery
JERUSALEM, November 14, 2011 (WAFA) ‘
JERUSALEM, November 14, 2011 (WAFA) ‘
We spent Thursday evening out and about in Mahane Yehuda, the historic fruit and vegetable shuk in the heart of Jerusalem. But we weren’
“Our plan is now to take the battle to the General Assembly to seek observer status,” official tells ‘The Jerusalem Post.’

AFPHigh court weighs whether US passport of boy born in Jerusalem can list Israel …
Washington Post
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The Jerusalem municipality demolishes illegal Arab buildings.
Next week, a landmark case goes before the Supreme Court in the United States. Despite the attempts of US Congress to recognize Jerusalem as the capital city of Israel, and the resolutions passed requiring the Embassy of the USA to be moved to Jerusalem…the US State Department refuses to print the word “Israel” when followed by the word “Jerusalem.”
A US Citizen born in Jerusalem will not have his US Report of Birth indicate “Jerusalem, Israel”, rather the country-less, “Jerusalem.” Even sadder, the Obama White House webpage removed all references to “Jerusalem, Israel” and replaced them with the single word, “Jerusalem”.
And now…the “American Friends of Peace Now” have decided to join the fray. They have asked to join the case next week, siding with the US State Department, insisting that Jerusalem NOT be recognized as the capital of Israel.
When the psalmist wrote, “If I forget Jerusalem, let my right hand lose its strength,” I wonder if he ever thought that Jews would be demanding that the Supreme Court of the United States deny the connection between Israel and its capital city, Jerusalem.
I guess there’s a reason they are called, “leftists.”
Haaretz:
Americans for Peace Now, the U.S. partner of Israel’
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israel is forcing Palestinians out of East Jerusalem as part of a deliberate policy that might constitute a war crime, a prominent Israeli non-governmental organisation said on Monday, a charge rejected by Jerusalem’s mayor.

Ha'aretzEast Jerusalem school textbooks are a war of words
Los Angeles Times
Israel says some passages incite violence. Parents and teachers are incensed. Israel’s edited version of a first-grade math textbook for Palestinian students in Arabic-language schools in East Jerusalem, right, omits a Palestinian flag flying over a …
Erekat tells Quartet Israel is impeding peaceJerusalem Post
Israel Police on alert in Jerusalem, fearing terror attackHa'aretz
The Land Exchange ProjectMiddle East Monitor
The National
Experts in different fields weigh in on the impact of the Trajtenberg Report in Jerusalem.
As Gilad comes home and the country unites in thanksgiving that despite his obviously frail state, he is at least able to walk under his own steam and is finally reuniting with his family. Reports now emerge that he needed medical treatment during the helicopter ride to Tel Nof Air base, but he was able to hug his parents and salute Prime Minister Netanyahu. President Shimon Peres issued pardons to the terrorists released in
exchange for Gilad and in his personal note to each one of them, Peres
wrote:
The voices of the terror victims and the
deep grief of their families burns all of our hearts. I would like to
note that my decision in this matter to exercise my authority in no way
pardons or forgives these murderers and criminals. I do not forgive and
forget.
Meanwhile, my colleague Yishai Fleisher who lives in Maale Hazeitim in eastern Jerusalem, documented the reaction of his Arab neighbors to the release of the first batch of terrorists.

PA wants an independent state on all the West Bank, Gaza Strip and east Jerusalem with no restrictions, no recognition of Israel as a Jewish state.
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israel plans to build more than 2,600 housing units in a new urban settlement in East Jerusalem, an anti-settlement group said on Friday, angering Palestinians who want a halt to all such projects before they return to peace talks.
Israel has formally submitted plans for a new settlement neighbourhood in annexed east Jerusalem in what will be the sector’s first new district in 14 years, Peace Now said on Friday.
Very
distressing to see the singing and dancing going on at the Shalit tent
outside Netanyahu’s office a few blocks away from here as the
announcement that Israel had agreed to release more than a thousand
terrorists, including hundreds who were serving life sentences for
terror attacks such as the Sbarro carnage in Jerusalem in August 2001.
The partying is pretty obscene given what is inevitably coming down the
pike…Rejoicing that Gilad’s name will forever be linked with the next
terror attack??

Celebrations at the Shalit tent in Jerusalem last night
What
are the chances that we’ll see another family sitting in exactly the
same position as the Shalits a year from now, now that all these
murderers will be running around free..what exactly is the deterrent now
against more of the same Hamas war crimes??
(Ron A, this one’s for you!!)
1. The tourists have landed! Overwhelmingly religious, English and French speaking, they jam the city’
During the High Holy Days I think about what a magnificent time it is to be a young immigrant living in Jerusalem.
It’s a small world around here, given that my brother-in-law just commented on Brian’s Yom Kippur post. But that is Israel, and Jerusalem, in particular. And it takes a village, or a Jerusalem co-op apartment building, as our recent experience with my mother on Erev Yom Kippur, showed us. We were on our way home [...]
Avi Levy and Nir Barkat cook ‘
Delaying the Gilo housing project would have shifted international pressure and attention from Jerusalem to Ramallah.