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By Hillel Fendel and Chaim Silberstein / KeepJerusalem.org
Olmert and Al-Kidwa call for the Palestinian state to be "non-militarized" except for internal policing needs. The problem is that once it is recognized as a state, it will need no one's permission to build itself an army, such that this clause is essentially irrelevant.
By Hillel Fendel and Chaim Silberstein / KeepJerusalem.org
Literally across the street from this wall, just outside the Arab village of Abu Dis, ten Jewish families have renewed the Jewish presence there – nearly a century after Jewish pioneers bought the land for exactly that purpose.
By Hillel Fendel and Chaim Silberstein / KeepJerusalem.org
Is Ramadan a holy month, or one of terrorism and warfare? The answer is "both."
By Chaim Silberstein and Rabbi Steven Pruzansky
Today, UNRWA maintains extensive office facilities in Jerusalem, including its local headquarters as well as the UNRWA Microfinance Department on Shlomo Zalman Shragai Street between Ramat Eshkol and Maalot Dafna, even as UNWRA does not recognize this area as Israeli Jerusalem.
Terrorist organizations across the world exploit the liberties and freedoms of democracies to bankroll their cruel operations, promote their evil agendas, and recruit the next generation of terrorists.
By Dr. Shmuel Katz and Chaim Silberstein / KeepJerusalem.org
There are many who claim that Jerusalem is not actually united, as Jews barely ever enter any Arab neighborhoods. Note that there is no parallel claim that Arabs do not frequent Jewish areas...
By Hillel Fendel and Chaim Silberstein / KeepJerusalem.org
The dangerous upgrade of Washington's relations with the PA, and the outrageous claims against Israeli law – present potentially great challenges to Israeli sovereignty in its united and historic capital.
By Hillel Fendel and Chaim Silberstein / KeepJerusalem.org
The article is replete with phrases such as "the contested notion of King David’s presence in Jerusalem," "the dreams and aspirations of the Palestinian community: birds flying free, a blazing sun, flowers in the colours of the Palestinian flag," and "forced evictions, land grabs, demolitions…"
By Hillel Fendel and Chaim Silberstein / KeepJerusalem.org
Most importantly, the Jewish presence in the area of the Mt. of Olives, and throughout eastern Jerusalem, has grown significantly in recent years.
By Hillel Fendel and Chaim Silberstein / KeepJerusalem.org
Over the past 30-plus years, there has been a massive wave of illegal building in Arab neighborhoods of Jerusalem, for the express purpose of creating geographic contiguity from Ramallah in the north to Bethlehem in the south.
By Hillel Fendel and Chaim Silberstein / KeepJerusalem.org
When the Israelis liberated all of Jerusalem in 1967, they kindly allowed the tenants to continue living there. The Arab squatters took advantage of the Israeli beneficence, and many of them either stopped paying the ridiculously low rent asked of them, or built on the land illegally-- or both
By Hillel Fendel and Chaim Silberstein / KeepJerusalem.org
The Jewish people's inalienable right to the Land of Israel is not only biblical but is rooted in internationally recognized legal treaties and documents beginning a century ago.
By Hillel Fendel and Chaim Silberstein / KeepJerusalem.org
Northern Jerusalem is a critical front in the Arab drive to take over parts of Jerusalem and then form yet another Arab country in the Land of Israel.
By Hillel Fendel and Chaim Silberstein / KeepJerusalem.org
nce again, the world struggles, and fails, to understand that there is no essential difference between Zionism – the movement to restore a national Jewish presence in the Holy Land – and Judaism. It is impossible to be anti-Zionist without being anti-Semitic, and vice-versa.
By Hillel Fendel and Chaim Silberstein / KeepJerusalem.org
The Arabs who refuse to leave or to pay rent for the Jewish properties parrot the idea that the area in which they illegally reside is the Arab neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah. Untrue: the neighborhood in which they have squatted is the 150-year-old Jewish neighborhood of Shimon HaTzaddik.
By Hillel Fendel and Chaim Silberstein / KeepJerusalem.org
Opening a consulate in Jerusalem for the Palestinian Authority will raise the PA's standing in Washington, thus encouraging it not to make concessions and perpetuating the state of non-peace or worse.
By Hillel Fendel and Chaim Silberstein / KeepJerusalem.org
It is critical to emphasize this point: The controversial houses were built in the Jewish neighborhood of Shimon HaTzaddik, and not, as most news reports would have you believe, in Sheikh Jarrah.
By Hillel Fendel and Chaim Silberstein / KeepJerusalem.org
Atarot's sister-settlement, N'vei Yaakov, has now become two flourishing Jewish neighborhoods – N'vei Yaakov and Pisgat Ze'ev – in which many tens of thousands of residents reside.
By Dr. Shmuel Katz and Chaim Silberstein / KeepJerusalem.org
A weakened Jerusalem significantly weakens Israel and its value to the United States.
By Hillel Fendel and Chaim Silberstein / KeepJerusalem.org
According to Biden, the U.S. should have kept the Jerusalem carrot hanging just out of Israel's reach for as long as possible until America could squeeze out every possible Israeli concession.
By Hillel Fendel and Chaim Silberstein / KeepJerusalem.org
The removal of the neighborhoods outside the security barrier from Jerusalem could be acceptable if they were to become separate Israeli municipalities.
By Hillel Fendel and Chaim Silberstein / KeepJerusalem.org
For decades, Arabs in eastern Jerusalem have been building illegally, with the government and municipality barely contesting them (unlike the much stricter enforcement in the Jewish sections).
By Hillel Fendel and Chaim Silberstein / KeepJerusalem.org
For Islam, which was founded when Judaism was about 2,500 years old, Jerusalem is only its third holiest city, following Mecca and Medina.
By Hillel Fendel and Chaim Silberstein / KeepJerusalem.org
We must ensure that Yerushalayim remains united under Israeli sovereignty with a large Jewish majority. History, ethics, security, and simple logic all indicate that we must stand firm in the face of international Muslim pressure and propaganda.
By Hillel Fendel and Chaim Silberstein / KeepJerusalem.org
The truth must be told. Had Netanyahu actually taken the steps he has so often outlined to build up the Jewish presence in Yerushalayim, Israel would not now be under the gun not to take the steps so necessary to ensuring full Jewish sovereignty in the Holy Land.
By Hillel Fendel and Chaim Silberstein / KeepJerusalem.org
Are these Arab neighborhoods in East Jerusalem to b e given over to the Palestinians as part of the Trump Plan technically part of Jerusalem? The answer depends on how one looks at Jerusalem's complex and often fluctuating borders. The many changes in the city's borders over the past century have left several neighborhoods in a state of uncertainty.
By Hillel Fendel and Chaim Silberstein / KeepJerusalem.org
In June 2015, a survey carried out by the PA-based Palestinian Center for Public Opinion found that 52 percent of Arabs living in eastern Jerusalem said they would prefer to be citizens of Israel. Note that this counts only those who weren’t afraid to reply to the pollster.
By Hillel Fendel and Chaim Silberstein / KeepJerusalem.org
Arabs who live in eastern Jerusalem will not be allowed to set the stage for a PA state that includes Israel's capital.
By Hillel Fendel and Chaim Silberstein / KeepJerusalem.org
Jerusalem is facing a double attack in the form of both illegal and legal Arab construction. This comes together with watered-down levels of Jewish construction in non-critical areas. The bottom line is that if not enough homes are built for Jews, and too many are built for Arabs
By Hillel Fendel and Chaim Silberstein / KeepJerusalem.org
So, yes, Yerushalayim is becoming a more "open" city, but that means we need to significantly increase and expand the Jewish presence in it. Only a strong Jewish majority will ensure and secure Jerusalem for generations to come and enable us to continue to advance toward the Jerusalem envisioned by our prophets
By Hillel Fendel and Chaim Silberstein / KeepJerusalem.org
This trend spells disaster not only for the Jews in Jerusalem, but for the State of Israel, which is liable to face pressure to divide the city in order to maintain its Jewish majority. If the current rates continue, Jerusalem's Arab population could actually reach parity with the Jewish population within 10-15 years.
By Hillel Fendel and Chaim Silberstein / KeepJerusalem.org
The international community should relate to Palestinians’ claims to Jerusalem as nothing more than the desire to do away with Israel.
By Hillel Fendel and Chaim Silberstein / KeepJerusalem.org
Should Arab schools in Jerusalem use Israel’s syllabus or that of the Palestinian Authority? At present, only a small minority of schools in eastern Jerusalem are under the auspices of Israel's Education Ministry – to the detriment of all peace efforts.
By Hillel Fendel and Chaim Silberstein / KeepJerusalem.org
In actual fact, Palestinian Arabs have precisely zero national rights to Jerusalem. The nutshell story is that in 1922, the League of Nations issued a unanimously-approved Mandate for Palestine which stated that the entire area, including Judea and Samaria, belongs to the Jewish People. This document was never replaced or modified by any other decision
By Hillel Fendel and Chaim Silberstein / KeepJerusalem.org
Hamas today has footholds in several neighborhoods of eastern Jerusalem,
By Hillel Fendel and Chaim Silberstein / KeepJerusalem.org
Aliyah to Jerusalem must continue and increase, all efforts to Islamicize Jerusalem must be firmly rebuffed, and Israel must assert its sovereignty throughout united Jerusalem in every way.
By Hillel Fendel and Chaim Silberstein / KeepJerusalem.org
hTe end goal of these Temple Mount terrorists: to detach the Jewish People from the source of their national strength and history.
By Hillel Fendel and Chaim Silberstein / KeepJerusalem.org
The question of who owns which land in Jerusalem, and where Arabs or Jews will build and expand, has significance well beyond the borders of the city or even the country
By Hillel Fendel and Chaim Silberstein / KeepJerusalem.org
The mall, however, has already drawn Fatah boycott calls as well as several Arab-hurled firebombs.
By Hillel Fendel and Chaim Silberstein / KeepJerusalem.org
Keep in mind that the "Muslim Quarter" was never exclusively Muslim; Jews and Christians used to live there as well. However, the Jews were compelled to leave their homes there in the wake of the 1929 Muslim riots. Finally, we are reclaiming it, one house at a time
By Hillel Fendel and Chaim Silberstein / KeepJerusalem.org
Let’s clear the table and tell the "narrative" as it really is: Jerusalem was chosen as the Jewish people's national and religious center before the dawn of organized religion. Other religions followed suit and declared it their own holy city – with catastrophic results during various periods of history.
By Hillel Fendel and Chaim Silberstein / KeepJerusalem.org
Jacques Gauthier, a non-Jewish Canadian lawyer who spent 20 years researching the issue, has concluded: "Jerusalem belongs to the Jews, by international law." His doctoral dissertation on the legal history of Jerusalem, based on an un-broken series of international treaties and resolutions over the course of the past century, demonstrates that the League of Nations and the United Nations gave the Jewish people title to the city of Jerusalem.
By Hillel Fendel and Chaim Silberstein / KeepJerusalem.org
There is a slowly growing trend of Jews returning to their historic homes in presently Arab-majority neighborhoods. Let the trend grow
By Hillel Fendel and Chaim Silberstein / KeepJerusalem.org
If Jerusalem were to be divided, Arab residents would abandon the eastern side, and move to west Jerusalem to retain the benefits that Israel provides. In turn, they would be replaced by terrorist and/or anarchistic elements that would turn the area into a war zone.
By Hillel Fendel and Chaim Silberstein / KeepJerusalem.org
A modern-day record for the number of Jewish visitors to the Temple Mount was set this week on Jerusalem Day – 2,046 Jews! Among them were many who sang and danced, "May G-d rebuild His House soon!" a healthy expression of the Jewish People singing its joy at returning to its land and city.
By Hillel Fendel and Chaim Silberstein / KeepJerusalem.org
President Trump has not yet given his "permission" to build the Third Temple, but he seems to have gone a fair ways towards taking his place in Jewish history.
By Hillel Fendel and Chaim Silberstein / KeepJerusalem.org
The Greek Orthodox Church found another way to circumvent its own rules against selling the land. In 2011, it sold the future leasing rights on most of its Jerusalem holdings to a private group of Jewish investors. It is the uncertainty of the future that creates unease
By Hillel Fendel and Chaim Silberstein / KeepJerusalem.org
The monster called "American and European pressure" showed up – and shot down the Givat HaMatos building project, once again. Why is the large Givat HaMatos housing project so significant and important?
By Hillel Fendel and Chaim Silberstein / KeepJerusalem.org
Witnessing the rebuilding and building of Jerusalem in our days.
By Hillel Fendel and Chaim Silberstein / KeepJerusalem.org
What better time than now to make a proud, pro-Israel and anti-terrorism decision to move the Embassy to Jerusalem?
By Hillel Fendel and Chaim Silberstein / KeepJerusalem.org
Dear Mr. President, Please do NOTHING...
By Hillel Fendel and Chaim Silberstein / KeepJerusalem.org
The objective of the Greater Jerusalem Law was to bolster the weakening demographic status of Israel's capital city and to "restore Jerusalem as the symbol and heart of the Jewish nation."
By Hillel Fendel and Chaim Silberstein / KeepJerusalem.org
The contrast with the increasing manifestations of international anti-Semitism is stark, and raises the question: What is the source of this incredible and effusive love for Israel from so many different stripes of people?
By Hillel Fendel and Chaim Silberstein / KeepJerusalem.org
School is back in session and with it is a new initiative to fight anti-Israel lessons in textbooks used by Palestinian schoolchildren
By Hillel Fendel and Chaim Silberstein / KeepJerusalem.org
Arabs claim Silwan as a historically Palestinian Arab neighborhood, yet it was practically empty when the first Yemenite Jews arrived in the 1880s; the Turks and British themselves recognized it as a Jewish neighborhood.
By Hillel Fendel and Chaim Silberstein / KeepJerusalem.org
With no one there to stop them, or to intimidate the Israeli police into stopping them, visiting Jews were able – within reason – to offer up prayers this week on the Temple Mount for the first time in many centuries.
By Hillel Fendel and Chaim Silberstein / KeepJerusalem.org
As Minister Bennett explained, "The bill is a way to prevent a future situation in which a temporary majority such as existed under Olmert or Barak would bring about the division of Jerusalem, the heart of the Jewish Nation." Is this threat not reason enough to support the bill?
By dvora
Recollections and reminiscences of Rav Benny Elon, (ZT"l)
By Hillel Fendel and Chaim Silberstein / KeepJerusalem.org
We, today's Jewish people, in two weeks, will be privileged to share in an historic milestone: The 50th anniversary of the liberation and reunification of Yerushalayim under Israeli sovereignty.
By Hillel Fendel and Chaim Silberstein / KeepJerusalem.org
The "survey says..." Young people want to stay in Jerusalem. Will the government and municpality make that possible?
By Hillel Fendel and Chaim Silberstein / KeepJerusalem.org
"The Jewish nation's bonds to Jerusalem are perhaps the deepest there have ever been in history between a people and a city."
By Hillel Fendel and Chaim Silberstein / KeepJerusalem.org
KeepJerusalem's plan for Jerusalem includes preserving a united Jerusalem under Israeli sovereignty, turning it into Israel's leading metropolis, and strengthening its status as capital of Israel
By Hillel Fendel and Chaim Silberstein / KeepJerusalem.org
Assuming Trump will not be intimidated and indeed move the embassy to Yerushalayim, will the presence of the U.S. embassy in Yerushalayim ensure the city's future as Jewish and Israeli?
By Hillel Fendel and Chaim Silberstein / KeepJerusalem.org
It is not an Arab housing crisis that is prompting this spree of illegal Palestinian construction. Rather, the goal is political: to show the world that Jerusalem is an Arab, and not a Jewish, city.
By Hillel Fendel and Chaim Silberstein / KeepJerusalem.org
Though no one can be sure how a President Trump will react to any given situation, "it is generally understood that whatever we don't do in the coming two months might not be able to be done later."
By Hillel Fendel and Chaim Silberstein / KeepJerusalem.org
Why do the Jewish ties to Jerusalem, Hebron and Nablus (Shechem), all 3 duly purchased, draw the most vociferous objections? Because the enemy knows our holy sites are the key to the entire struggle
By Hillel Fendel and Chaim Silberstein / KeepJerusalem.org
Philanthropist and Israel lover Kevin Bermeister: "We are in a generation that can turn Jerusalem into a city of the world, our goal is to preserve Jerusalem as Jewish, united, and large."
By Hillel Fendel and Chaim Silberstein / KeepJerusalem.org
Stunningly, power exerted by the hate-filled propaganda of the Palestinian Authority easily overcame simple historic truths and traditional ties of friendship between Israel and other countries.
By Hillel Fendel and Chaim Silberstein / KeepJerusalem.org
Historically, and in 1967, when the Old City and environs were liberated, the same trend continued: new neighborhoods to the west, north, and south. What of the east? Today, we go East!
By Hillel Fendel and Chaim Silberstein / KeepJerusalem.org
An appropriate response to the recent terrorism would have been the announcement of totally new housing plans for hundreds of units in places Pisgat Ze'ev, Gilo, Kiryat Arba and elsewhere.
By Hillel Fendel and Chaim Silberstein / KeepJerusalem.org
It was during these very days in 1967 that the IDF, with great heroism and Divine providence, liberated Jerusalem–unifying the city under Jewish sovereignty for the first time in 19 centuries.
By Hillel Fendel and Chaim Silberstein / KeepJerusalem.org
The more the radical Left loses its grip on public opinion, the more it attempts to thwart the will of the Israeli public.
By Hillel Fendel and Chaim Silberstein / KeepJerusalem.org
Arthur Goldberg, the U.S. ambassador to the UN in 1967 who helped draft the resolution, later testified: "I never described Jerusalem as occupied territory. Resolution 242 in no way refers to Jerusalem and this omission was deliberate."
By Hillel Fendel and Chaim Silberstein / KeepJerusalem.org
The plan to reduce and divide Jerusalem is irresponsible from a security standpoint and contrary to history
By Hillel Fendel and Chaim Silberstein / KeepJerusalem.org
The world speaks of "Arab east Jerusalem" yet more Jews than Arabs actually live in these areas
By Hillel Fendel and Chaim Silberstein / KeepJerusalem.org
A blow to Jerusalem is a blow to the entire Jewish people; Muslims understand this better than Jews
By Hillel Fendel and Chaim Silberstein / KeepJerusalem.org
Abbas is viewed by the world as a man of peace and diplomacy; a quick look proves the opposite.
By Hillel Fendel and Chaim Silberstein / KeepJerusalem.org
It's critically important for Israel's future to ensure affordable housing for Jews in Yerushalayim
By Hillel Fendel and Chaim Silberstein / KeepJerusalem.org
In Jerusalem, there is a need for over 4,000 new apartments each year; some 2,000 are actually built
By Hillel Fendel and Chaim Silberstein / KeepJerusalem.org
A fine thread running through many of our columns is that the legitimacy of Islam's religious claims to Jerusalem is in inverse proportion to the volume and frequency with which they are made. Now comes along a renowned Muslim Egyptian scholar, of all people, to corroborate our point. Prof. Youssef Ziedan, a specialist in Arabic and […]
By Hillel Fendel and Chaim Silberstein / KeepJerusalem.org
Festivities are planned for laying a foundation-stone symbolizing a physical dividing of Jerusalem
By Hillel Fendel and Chaim Silberstein / KeepJerusalem.org
Why do we need Arab neighborhoods of Jerusalem? Why not divide the city and make a peace agreement?
By Hillel Fendel and Chaim Silberstein / KeepJerusalem.org
Islam's sudden "return" to Jerusalem is rooted only in the desire to rid the Middle East of Israel.
By Hillel Fendel and Chaim Silberstein / KeepJerusalem.org
Despite British assuring the Jews would be allowed to return "shortly" it's only happening now
By Hillel Fendel and Chaim Silberstein / KeepJerusalem.org
Nearly 1/4 million Jews live in areas of Jerusalem previously ruled illegally by Jordan ('48-'67)
By Hillel Fendel and Chaim Silberstein / KeepJerusalem.org
We know we are closer than ever to saying goodbye to Tisha B'Av mourning and greeting our Redemption
By Hillel Fendel and Chaim Silberstein / KeepJerusalem.org
KeepJerusalem revealed there's NO long term plan for strengthening & perpetuating a united Jerusalem
By Hillel Fendel and Chaim Silberstein / KeepJerusalem.org
Considering the news, it's not for nothing the Midrash calls Jerusalem the world's umbilical center
By Hillel Fendel and Chaim Silberstein / KeepJerusalem.org
For a peace treaty with the PA, half the Israeli public would agree to divide the Jerusalem
By Hillel Fendel and Chaim Silberstein / KeepJerusalem.org
48 years ago this week the IDF with heroism & Divine providence liberated our holy capital Jerusalem
By Hillel Fendel and Chaim Silberstein / KeepJerusalem.org
"We returned to this Land not in order to be murdered, or uprooted. We came here to be replanted!"
By Hillel Fendel and Chaim Silberstein / KeepJerusalem.org
Negotiations with the PA raises fears that some of Jerusalem will be handed over to foreign control
By Hillel Fendel and Chaim Silberstein / KeepJerusalem.org
All Zionist parties must demonstrate that a united Jewish Yerushalayim is an absolute imperative
By Hillel Fendel and Chaim Silberstein / KeepJerusalem.org
Israel's full sovereignty over a united Jerusalem is the only path for true peace in the region.
By Hillel Fendel and Chaim Silberstein / KeepJerusalem.org
Despite its name, the Muslim Quarter was home to many Jews and 6 yeshivot in the 19th century
By Hillel Fendel and Chaim Silberstein / KeepJerusalem.org
A unified Jerusalem's most threatened by a leading Prime Minister candidate: Labor's Yitzchak Herzog
By Hillel Fendel and Chaim Silberstein / KeepJerusalem.org
As Israel slowly loses its grip on parts of its capital, the Arabs are working to fill the vacuum.
By Hillel Fendel and Chaim Silberstein / KeepJerusalem.org
The EU wants to replace the US with an increased role for the UN and its built-in anti-Israel stance
By Hillel Fendel and Chaim Silberstein / KeepJerusalem.org
Police play down Arab terrorism as mere "violence" until the truth can no longer be hidden.
By Hillel Fendel and Chaim Silberstein / KeepJerusalem.org
Rav Goren: "At the request of the Jews, Omar built the Dome of the Rock as a Jewish house of prayer"
